Fraser’s dolphin turns up rarely in Florida’s records: just 43 total, every one sourced from GBIF rather than a live iNaturalist sighting. That’s consistent with a species that lives in deep offshore water and mostly reaches the record books through strandings or research surveys, not encounters near shore. USGS doesn’t flag it as nonindigenous in Florida, so it’s treated as native to the state’s mapped range.
July accounts for 30 of the 43 records, an outsized share for one month, with November a distant second at 11 and most other months empty. With a sample this small, that July cluster likely traces back to one or two stranding events rather than a real seasonal pattern in the species’ Florida presence.
