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Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops Aduncus

Photo by Hamed Moshiri
Published on Project Noah
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Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin

Tursiops aduncus
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Comments (13)
Jacob Gorneau
Congratulations, Hamed, your spectacular dolphin was featured in my Project Noah blog post today! http://blog.projectnoah.org/post/47951844088/dolphins-children-of-the-sea
LealikiKanoa
Annorion- Yes, that is a remora! Also called a sharksucker. They hang around cetaceans and elasmobranches for commensal purposes, I believe. I might be wrong about the last part though!
Christiane
WOW.. AMAZING! What an outstanding shot!
jbd1764
Outstanding! An excellent pic!
hg_williams3
looks like a remora or pilot fish stuck on for the ride
annorion
Nice action! Is that a fish on its side?

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