Every one of Florida’s 44 clymene dolphin records comes from GBIF’s specimen and survey data; not one was logged through iNaturalist. That pattern points to a species almost never spotted casually from shore or a boat, and one that shows up instead through strandings and offshore research collections. USGS doesn’t list it as nonindigenous here, so it’s treated as native to Florida’s mapped range.
December stands out sharply, with 24 records versus single digits in most other months. A few strandings or one survey trip clustered in December could easily produce that spike in a dataset this small, so it reads more like a reporting pattern than a true winter migration into Florida waters.
