High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hector's dolphin is the best-known of the four dolphins in the genus Cephalorhynchus and is found only in New Zealand. At about 1.4 m in length, it is one of the smallest cetaceans. Hector’s dolphin was named after Sir James Hector. He was the curator of the Colonial Museum in Wellington. He examined the first specimen found of the dolphin. The species was scientifically described by Belgian zoologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden in 1881. Maui's dolphin is a subspecies of Hector's dolphin found off the northwest coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is the most endangered subspecies of marine mammal. There are approximately 110 Maui's dolphins remaining.

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