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ORDER:
CETARTIODACTYLA
Sub-order: MYSTICETI
Species : Common name (English)
Family:
Balaenidae
1. Eubalaena australis :
Southern right whale
Family:
Balaenopteridae
2. Megaptera novaeangliae australis :
Southern humpback whale
3. Balaenoptera acutorostrata :
Minke whale
4. Balaenoptera edeni : Bryde's
whale
5. Balaenoptera borealis schlegellii
: Southern sei whale
6. Balaenoptera physalus quoyi :
Southern fin whale
7. Balaenoptera musculus :
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
brevicauda : Pygmy blue whale
Sub-order: ODONTOCETI
Family:
Physeteridae
8. Physeter macrocephalus :
Sperm whale
Family:
Kogiidae
9. Kogia breviceps : Pygmy
sperm whale
10. Kogia sima : Dwarf sperm
whale
Family:
Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
11. Ziphius cavirostris :
Cuvier's beaked whale
12. Mesoplodon hectori :
Hector's beaked whale
13. Mesoplodon grayi : Gray's
beaked whale
14. Mesoplodon peruvianus
: Peruvian beaked whale
15. Mesoplodon densirostris
: Blainville's beaked whale
Family:
Iniidae
16. Inia geoffrensis : Boto or
pink dolphin
Family:
Delphinidae
17. Sotalia fluviatilis :
Tucuxi
18. Steno bredanensis : Rough-toothed
dolphin
19. Tursiops truncatus : Common bottle-nose dolphin
20. Tursiops aduncus : Indo-Pacific bottle-nose dolphin
21. Stenella attenuata : Pantropical
spotted dolphin
22. Stenella
longirostris longirostris : Gray's spinner dolphin
Stenella longirostris orientalis : Eastern spinner dolphin
23. Stenella coeruleoalba : Striped
dolphin
24. Delphinus delphis : Short-beaked common dolphin
25. Delphinus
capensis : Long-beaked common dolphin
26. Lagenodelphis hosei : Fraser's dolphin
27. Lagenorhynchus
obscurus posidonia : Peruvian Dusky dolphin
28. Lissodelphis
peronii : Southern right whale-dolphin
29. Grampus griseus : Risso's dolphin
30. Peponocephala
electra : Melon headed whale
31. Feresa attenuata : Pygmy killer whale
32. Pseudorca crassidens :
False killer whale
33. Orcinus
orca : Orca
34. Globicephala melas edwardii : Southern long-finned pilot whale
35. Globicephala macrorhynchus : Short-finned pilot whale
Family: Phocoenidae
36. Phocoena spinipinnis : Black or Burmeister's porpoise
ORDER: CARNIVORA
Sub-order: CANIFORMIA
Superfamily: Pinnipedia
Family: Otariidae
37. Otaria byronia = flavescens : South American sea-lion (resident)
38. Arctocephalus australis gracilis : South American fur seal (resident)
39. Arctocephalus galapagoensis : Galapagos fur seal (resident - ORCA, 2010)
40. Arctocephalus philippii : Juan Fernandez fur seal (vagrant)
41. Zalophus wollebaeki : Galapagos sea-lion (vagrant)
Family: Phocidae
42. Mirounga leonina : Southern elephant seal (vagrant)
Superfamily: Canoidea
Family: Mustelidae
43. Lontra felina : Marine otter / Nutria marina
ORDER: SIRENIA
Family: Trichechidae
44. Trichechus inunguis : Amazonian manatee (Amazon river basin)
Sources: International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), Society for Marine Mammalogy (SMM), & Organization for Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals (ORCA).
Committee on Taxonomy. 2016. List of marine mammal species and subspecies. Society for Marine Mammalogy, consulted on March 1st, 2016.
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