Odontoceti

CategoryClassification
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderCetacea
SuborderOdontoceti
Family
Genus species
Phocoenidae(Porpoises)
Neophocaena phocaenoides - Finless Porpoise
Australophocaena dioptrica - Spectacled Porpoise
*Phocoena phocoena - Harbor Porpoise
Phocoena sinus - Vaquita Porpoise
Phocoena spinipinnis - Burmeister's Porpoise
Phocodenoides dalli - Dall's Porpoise


Delphinidae(Small Toothed Whales & Dolphins)
Feresa attenuata - Pygmy Killer Whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus - Short-finned Pilot Whale
Globicephala melas - Long-finned Pilot Whale
*Orcinus orca - Killer Whale
Peponocephala electra - Melon-headed Whale
Pseudorca crassidens - False Killer Whale
*Delphinus delphis - Common Dolphin
Lissodelphis borealis - Northern Rightwhale Dolphin
Lissodelphis peronii - Southern Rightwhale Dolphin
Sotalia fluviatilis - Tucuxi
Sousa chinensis - Indo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphin
Sousa teuszii - Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin
*Stenella coeruleoalba - Striped Dolphin
Stenella clymene - Short-snouted Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris - Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin
Stenella attenuata - Spinner Dolphin
Stenella frontalis - Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Steno bredanensis - Rough-toothed Dolphin
*Tursiops truncatus - Bottlenose Dolphin
Cephalorhychus commersonii - Commerson's Dolphin
Cephalorhychus eutropia - Black Dolphin
Cephalorhychus heavisidii - Heaviside's Dolphin
Cephalorhychus hectori - Hector's Dolphin
*Grampus griseus - Grey Grampus (Risso's Dolphin)
Lagenodelphis hosei - Fraser's Dolphin
*Lagenorhynchus acutus - Atlantic White-sided Dolphin
*Lagenorhynchus albirostris - White-beaked Dolphin
Lagenorhynchus australis - Peale's Dolphin
Lagenorhynchus cruciger - Hourglass Dolphin
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens - Pacific White-sided Dolphin
Lagenorhynchus obscurus - Dusky Dolphin
Orcaella brevirostris - Irrawaddy Dolphin


Kogiidae
(Small [Toothed] Sperm Whales)

*Physeter macrocephalus - Sperm Whale
*Kogia breviceps - Pigmy Sperm Whale
Kogia simus - Dwarf Sperm Whale


Iniidae/Pontoporiidae/
Platanistidae
(River dolphins)

Inia geoffrensis - Boto
Lipotes vexillifer - Baiji
Platanista minor - Indus River Dolphin
Platanista gangetica - Ganges River Dolphin
Pontoporia blainvillei - Franciscana


Monodontidae
(Beluga whales)

*Delphinapterus leucas - Beluga
Monodon monoceros - Narwhal


Ziphiidae
(Beaked whales)

Mesoplodon peruvianus - Lesser Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon hectori - Hector's Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon bowdoini - Andrew's Beaked Whale
*Mesoplodon bidens - North Sea Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon europaeus - Gervais Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon ginkgodens - Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon gray - Gray's Beaked Whale
*Mesoplodon mirus - True's Beaked Whale
*Mesoplodon densirostris - Dense Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon carlhubbsi - Hubb's Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon stejnegeri - Stejneger's Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon layardii - Strap-toothed Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon shepherdi - Shepard's Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon cavirostris - Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Mesoplodon planifrons - Southern Bottlenose Whale
Mesoplodon pacidicus - Longman's Beaked Whale
*Hyperoodon ampullatus - Northern Bottlenosed Whale
Berardius arnuxii - Arnoux's Beaked Whale
Berardius bairdii - Baird's Beaked Whale

*Cetaceans in the Gulf of Maine



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