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Classification | Order | Family | Genus/species | Common Name |
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Aquatic Mammal (Mammalia) | Artiodactyla | Hippopotamidae | Hippopotamus amphibius | Hippopotamus |
Choeropsis liberiensis | Pygmy Hippo | |||
Carnivora (Fissipedia) | Mustelidae | Enhydra lutris | Sea Otter | |
Lontra canadensis | North American River Otter | |||
Cetacea (Mysticeti) | Balaenidae | Balaena mysticetus | Bowhead Whale | |
Eubalaena glacialis | Northern Right Whale | |||
Balaenopterdiae | Megaptera novaeanglia | Humpback Whale | ||
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Minke Whale | |||
Balaenoptera borealis | Sei Whale | |||
Balaenoptera edeni | Bryde's Whale | |||
Balaenoptera musculus | Blue Whale | |||
Balaenoptera physalus | Fin Whale | |||
Eschrictiidae | Eschrichtius robustus | Gray Whale | ||
Cetacea (Odontoceti) | Delphinidae | Cephalorhynchus hectori | Hector's Dolphin | |
Delphinus delphis | Short-beaked Common Dolphin | |||
Feresa attenuata | Pygmy Killer Whale | |||
Globicephala macrorhynchus | Short-finned Pilot Whale | |||
Globicephala melas (=melaena) | Long-finned Pilot Whale | |||
Grampus griseus | Risso's Dolphin | |||
Inia geoffrensis | Amazon River Dolphin | |||
Lagenodelphis hosei | Fraser's Dolphin | |||
Lagenorhynchus acutus | Atlantic White-sided Dolphin | |||
Lagenorhynchus albirostris | Atlantic White-beaked Dolphin | |||
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens | Pacific White-sided Dolphin | |||
Lissodelphis borealis | Northern Right Whale Dolphin | |||
Peponocephala electra | Melon-headed Whale | |||
Pseudorca crassidens | False Killer Whale | |||
Stenella attenuata | Pantropical Spotted Dolphin | |||
Stenella clymene | Clymene Dolphin | |||
Stenella coeruleoalba | Striped Dolphin | |||
Stenella frontalis | Atlantic Spotted Dolphin | |||
Stenella longirostris | Spinner Dolphin Hawaii | |||
Tursiops truncatus | Bottlenose Dolphin | |||
Kogiidae | Kogia breviceps | Pygmy Sperm Whale | ||
Kogia simus | Dwarf Sperm Whale | |||
Monodontidae | Delphinapterus leucas | Beluga Whale | ||
Monodon monoceros | Narwhal | |||
Phocoenidae | Phocoena phocoena | Harbor Porpoise | ||
Phocoenidae | Phocoenoides dalli | Dall's Porpoise | ||
Physeteridae | Physeter macrocephalus (=catadon) | Sperm Whale | ||
Plantanistoidea | Pontoporia blanvillei | La Plata Dolphin (Franciscanna) | ||
Steninae | Sotalia fluviatilis | Tucuxi | ||
Steno bredanensis | Rough-toothed dolphin | |||
Ziphiidae | Mesoplodon bidens | Sowerby's Beaked Whale | ||
Mesoplodon densirostris | Blainville's Beaked Whale | |||
Mesoplodon europaeus | Gervais' Beaked Whale | |||
Mesoplodon mirus | True's Beaked Whale | |||
Ziphius cavirostris | Cuvier's Beaked Whale | |||
Carnivora (Pinnipedia) | Odobenidae | Odobenus rosmarus | Walrus | |
Otariidae | Callorhinus ursinus | Northern Fur Seal | ||
Zalophus californianus | California Sea Lion | |||
Phocidae | Cystophora cristata | Hooded Seal | ||
Halichoerus grypus | Gray Seal | |||
Leptonychotes weddellii | Weddell Seal | |||
Mirounga angustirostris | Northern Elephant Seal | |||
Phoca groenlandica | Harp Seal | |||
Phoca hispida | Ringed Seal | |||
Phoca vitulina | Harbor Seal | |||
Sirenia | Dugongidae | Dugong dugon | Dugong | |
Hydrodamalis gigas | Steller's Sea Cow | |||
Trichechidae | Trichechus manatus | West Indian Manatee |