105. Common Dolphin (Inner Mediterranean subpopulation), Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Status: Regular; stranded dead along the coasts of Tartous, Ras Al-Baseet, Latakia, and Ibn Hani (Saad 2008) and also found swimming in Al-Baseet (Ibrahim et al. 2015) and Burj Islam (Saad et al. 2019) (Fig. 114).