This section will provide you with a huge list of marine mammals including Cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), Fissipeds (polar bears and otters), Pinnipeds (seals, fur seals, sea lions and walruses) and Sirenians (manatees and dugongs).
Please look through the list and click on the marine mammal you are interested in learning more about.
Note: More Marine Mammals will be added as they are discovered and researched!
Cetacea – Baleen whales (Mysticeti)
Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda)
Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)
Bryde’s whale (Balaenoptera brydei)
Pygmy Byrde’s whale (Balaenoptera edeni)
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Antarctic or southern minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)
Common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
Dwarf minke whale
Omura’s whale (Balaenoptera omurai)
Pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata)
North atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
North pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica)
Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)
Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
Cetacea – Toothed Whales (Odontoceti)
Andrew’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bowdoini)
Arnoux’s beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii)
Baird’s beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
Blainville’s Beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)
Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
Gervais’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)
Ginkgo toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens)
Gray’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi)
Hector’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori)
Hubb’s Beaked whale (Mesoplodon carlhubbsi)
Longman’s beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus)
Perrin’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini)
Pygmy beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
Shepherd’s beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
Stejneger’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri)
True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus)
Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)
Northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus)
Southern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon planifrons)
Narwhal whale (Monodon monoceros)
Spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii)
Strap-toothed whale (Mesoplodon layardii)
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus)
Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima)
Pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)
Cetacea – Dolphins (Odontoceti)
White-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris)
Long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis)
Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
Arabian common dolphin (Delphinus tropicalis)
Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis)
Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Indian ocean/indo-pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
Chilean dolphin (Cephalorhynchus eutropia)
Chinese white dolphin – (Sousa chinensis)
Clymene’s dolphin (Stenella clymene)
Commerson’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)
Costero dolphin (Sotalia guianensis)
Dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)
La Plata dolphin (Franciscana dolphin) – (Pontoporia blainvillei)
Fraser’s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei)
Heaviside’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii)
Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori)
Hourglass dolphin (Lagenorhynchus cruciger)
Atlantic Humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszi)
Indian Humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea)
Pacific Humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)
Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris)
killer whale – (Orcinus orca)
False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens)
Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata)
Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra)
Peale’s dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis)
Northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
Southern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii)
Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis)
Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris)
Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas)
Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus)
Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus)
Amazon river dolphin (Boto) – (Inia geoffrensis)
Chinese river dolphin (Baiji) – (Lipotes vexillifer)
Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)
Indus river dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor)
Australian snubfin dolphin (Orcaella heinsohni)
Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)
Tucuxi dolphin (Sotalia fluviatilis)
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Cetacea – Porpoises (Odontoceti)
Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli)
Finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)
Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)
Fissipeds – Polar bear and Sea otter
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Sea otter