Order Cetacea

Suborder Odontoceti

Toothed Whales

Family Platanistidae

Ganges (Platanista gangetica) and Indus (P. minor) river dolpins

Family Pontoporiidae

La Plata (or Franciscana) river dolphin, Pontoporia blainvillei

Family Iniidae

Amazon (or Boto) river dolphin, Inia vexillifer

Family Monodontidae

Narwhal (Monodon monocerus)

Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)

Family Kogiidae

Pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)

Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima)

Family Physeteridae

Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)

Family Ziphiidae

Beaked whales

Ziphius cavirostris

Cuvier’s beaked whale

Berardius bairdii

Baird’s beaked whale

Mesoplodon densirostris

Blainville’s beaked whale

Hyperoodon ampullatus

Northern bottlenose whale

Family Delphinidae

Dolphins

Tursoips truncatus

Bottlenose dolphin

Lagenorhynchus obliquidens

Pacific white-sided dolphin

Grampus griseus

Risso’s dolphin

Lissodelphis borealis

Northern right whale dolphin

Delphinus delphis

Common dolphin

Orcinus orca

Killer whale

Globicephala macrorhynchus

short-finned pilot whale

Pseudorca crassidens

False killer whale

Steno bredanensis

Rough-toothed dolphin

Stenella attenuata

Pantropical spotted dolphin

Stenella longirostris

Spinner dolphin

Family Phocoenidae

Porpoises

Phocoenoides dalli

Dall’s porpoise

Phocoena phocoena

Harbor porpoise

Phocoena sinus

Vaquita

Suborder Mysticeti

Baleen whales

Family Balaenidae

Right whales

Balaena mysticetus

Bowhead whale

Eubalaena australis

Southern right whale

Eubalaena glacialis

North Atlantic right whale

Eubalaena japonica

North Pacific right whale

Family Neobalaenidae

Pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata

Family Eschrichtiidae

Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus

Family Balaenopteridae

Rorqual whales

Megaptera novaeangliae

Humpback whale

Balaenoptera musculus

Blue whale

Balaenoptera physalus

Fin whale

Balaenoptera acutrostrata

Minke whale

Balaenoptera borealis

Sei whale