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Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific society, maintains a list of valid species and subspecies, most recently updated in October 2015.^[1] This list follows the Society's taxonomy regarding and subspecies.

Conservation status codes listed follow the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (v. 2014.3; data current at 19 January 2015^[2]) and are clickable to link to IUCN Red List species pages.

EX - extinct

EW - extinct in the wild
CR - critically endangered
EN - endangered
VU - vulnerable
NT - near threatened
LC - least concern
DD - data deficient

NE - not evaluated

Order Cetartiodactyla

Footnote on use of Cetartiodactyla^[a]

Cetacea (unranked)

Mysticeti (unranked)

Balaenidae

North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis EN
North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica EN
southern right whale, Eubalaena australis LC
bowhead whale or Greenland Whale, Balaena mysticetus LC

Balaenopteridae

common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC (ssp. acutorostrata - North Atlantic minke whale NE, ssp. scammoni - North Pacific minke whale NE, unnamed ssp. dwarf minke whale NE)
Antarctic minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis DD
sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis EN (ssp. borealis - northern sei whale NE, ssp. schlegellii - southern sei whale NE)
Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni DD (ssp. brydei - Bryde's whale NE, ssp. edeni - Eden's whaleNE )
Omura's whale, Balaenoptera omurai DD
blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus EN (ssp. musculus - northern blue whale NE, ssp. brevicauda - pygmy blue whale DD, ssp. intermedia - Antarctic blue whale CR, ssp. indica - Northern Indian Ocean blue whale NE, unnamed subspecies - Chilean blue whale NE)
fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus EN (ssp. patachonica pygmy fin whale NE, ssp. physalus - northern fin whale NE but Mediterranean Subpopulation VU, ssp. quoyi - southern fin whale NE)
humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae LC (ssp. novaeangliae North Atlantic humpback whale NE, ssp. kuzira - North Pacific humpback whale NE, ssp. australis - southern humpback whale NE but Oceania subpopulation EN, isolated subpopulation in Arabian Sea EN)

Neobalaenidae

pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata DD

Eschrichtiidae

gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus LC

Odontoceti (unranked)

Physeteridae

sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus VU

Kogiidae

pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps DD
dwarf sperm whale, Kogia simus DD

Ziphiidae

Baird's beaked whale, Berardius bairdii DD
Arnoux's beaked whale, Berardius arnuxii DD
northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus DD
southern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon planifrons LC
tropical bottlenose whale, Indopacetus pacificus DD
Sowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens DD
Andrews' beaked whale, Mesoplodon bowdoini DD
Hubbs' beaked whale, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi DD
Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris DD
Gervais' beaked whale, Mesoplodon europaeus DD
ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon ginkgodens DD
Gray's beaked whale, Mesoplodon grayi DD
Hector's beaked whale, Mesoplodon hectori DD
Deraniyagala's beaked whale, Mesoplodon hotaula NE
strap-toothed whale, Mesoplodon layardii DD
True's beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus DD
Perrin’s beaked whale, Mesoplodon perrini DD
pygmy beaked whale, Mesoplodon peruvianus DD
Stejneger’s beaked whale, Mesoplodon stejnegeri DD
spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversii DD
Shepherd's beaked whale, Tasmacetus shepherdi DD
Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris LC

Platanistidae

South Asian river dolphin, Platanista gangetica EN (ssp. gangetica - Ganges river dolphin EN, ssp. minor - Indus river dolphin EN)

Iniidae

Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis DD (ssp. geoffrensis - common boto NE, ssp. boliviensis - Bolivian bufeo NE)

Lipotidae

Baiji, Lipotes vexillifer CR, likely extinct ^[9]

Pontoporiidae

La Plata Dolphin (Franciscana), Pontoporia blainvillei VU

Monodontidae

beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas NT (Cook Inlet Subpopulation CR)
narwhal, Monodon monoceros NT

Delphinidae

Commerson's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus commersonii DD (ssp. commersonii - Commerson's dolphin NE, ssp. kerguelenensis - Kerguelen Islands Commerson’s dolphin NE)
Chilean dolphin, Cephalorhynchus eutropia NT
Heaviside’s dolphin, Cephalorhynchus heavisidii DD
Hector's dolphin, Cephalorhynchus hectori (ssp. hectori - South Island Hector’s dolphin EN, ssp. maui - Maui's dolphin or North Island Hector’s dolphin CR)
long-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus capensis DD (ssp. capensis - long-beaked common dolphin NE, ssp. tropicalis - Indo-Pacific common dolphin NE)
short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis LC (ssp. delphis - short-beaked common dolphin Mediterranean Subpopulation EN, ssp. ponticus - Black Sea common dolphin VU)
pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata DD
short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus DD
long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas DD (ssp. edwardii - southern long-finned pilot whale NE, ssp. melas - North Atlantic long-finned pilot whale NE, unnamed spp. - North Pacific long-finned pilot whale EX)
Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus LC
Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei LC
Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus LC
white-beaked dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris LC
Peale’s dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis DD
hourglass dolphin, Lagenorhynchus cruciger LC
Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens LC
dusky dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obscurus DD (ssp. fitzroyi - Fitzroy’s dolphin NE, ssp. obscurus - African dusky dolphin NE, ssp. posidonia - Chilean dusky dolphin NE, unnamed spp. - New Zealand dusky dolphin NE)
northern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis LC
southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii DD
Irrawaddy dolphin, Orcaella brevirostris VU
Australian snubfin dolphin, Orcaella heinsohni NT
killer whale (orca), Orcinus orca DD (unnamed ssp. - resident killer whale NE, unnamed ssp. transient killer whale NE)
melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra LC
false killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens DD
Atlantic humpback dolphin, Sousa teuszii VU
Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin, Sousa chinensis NT, (ssp. chinensis - Chinese humpback dolphin NE, ssp. taiwanensis - Taiwanese humpback dolphins NE)
Indian Ocean humpback dolphin, Sousa plumbea NE
Australian humpback dolphin, Sousa sahulensis NE
tucuxi, Sotalia fluvialis DD
Guiana dolphin (Costero), Sotalia guianensis DD
pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata LC (ssp. attenuata - Offshore pantropical spotted dolphin NE, ssp. graffmani - Coastal pantropical spotted dolphin NE)
Clymene dolphin, Stenella clymene DD
striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba LC
Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis DD
spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris DD (ssp. centroamericana - Central American spinner dolphin NE, ssp. longirostris - Gray’s spinner dolphin NE, ssp. orientalis - eastern spinner dolphin VU, ssp. roseiventris - dwarf spinner dolphin NE)
rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis LC
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops aduncus DD
common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus LC (ssp. trucatus - common bottlenose dolphin Fiordland subpopulation CR and Mediterranean subpopulation VU, ssp. ponticus - Black Sea bottlenose dolphin CR)

Phocoenidae

Indo-pacific finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides VU
Narrow-ridged finless porpoise, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis VU, (spp. asiaeorientalis - Yangtze finless porpoise CR, ssp. sumameri - East Asian finless porpoise (Sunameri) NE)
spectacled porpoise, Phocoena dioptrica DD
harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena LC (Baltic Sea supopoulation CR) (ssp. phocoena - Atlantic harbour porpoise NE, ssp. vomerina - Eastern Pacific harbour porpoise NE, ssp. relicta - Black Sea harbour porpoise EN, unnamed ssp. Western Pacific harbour porpoise NE)
vaquita, Phocoena sinus CR
Burmeister's porpoise, Phocoena spinipinnis DD
Dall’s porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli LC (ssp. dalli - Dalli-type Dall’s porpoise NE, ssp. truei - Truei-type Dall’s porpoiseNE)

Order Sirenia

Trichechidae

Amazonian manatee, Trichechus inunguis VU
West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus VU (ssp. latirostris - Florida manatee EN, ssp. manatus - Antillean manatee EN)
African manatee, Trichechus senegalensis VU

Dugongidae

dugong, Dugong dugon VU
Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas EX

Order Carnivora

Pinnipedia

Otariidae

South American fur seal, Arctocephalus australis LC (ssp. australis - South American fur seal NE, unnamed ssp. - Peruvian fur seal NE)
New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus forsteri LC
Galápagos fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis EN
Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella LC
Juan Fernández fur seal, Arctocephalus philippii NT (ssp. philippii - Juan Fernandez fur seal NE, ssp. townsendi - Guadalupe fur seal NE)
brown fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus LC (ssp. pusillus - Cape fur seal NE, ssp. doriferus - Australian fur seal NE)
subantarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus tropicalis LC
northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus VU
Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus NT (ssp. jubatus - western Steller sea lion EN, ssp. monteriensis - Loughlin’s Steller sea lion LC)
Australian sea lion, Neophoca cinerea EN
South American sea lion, Otaria byronia LC
New Zealand sea lion, Phocarctos hookeri VU
California sea lion, Zalophus californianus LC
Japanese sea lion, Zalophus japonicus EX
Galápagos sea lion, Zalophus wollebaeki EN

Odobenidae

walrus, Odobenus rosmarus DD (ssp. divergens - Pacific walrus NE, ssp. rosmarus - Atlantic walrus NE)

Phocidae

hooded seal, Cysophora cristata VU
bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus LC (ssp. barbatus - Atlantic bearded seal NE, ssp. nauticus - Pacific bearded seal NE)
grey seal, Halichoerus grypus LC (ssp. grypus - Western Atlantic grey seal NE, ssp. macrorhynchus - Eastern Atlantic grey seal NE)
ribbon seal, Histriophoca fasciata DD
leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx LC
Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddellii LC
crabeater seal, Lobodon carcinophaga LC
southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina LC
northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris LC
Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus CR
Caribbean monk seal, Neomonachus tropicalis EX
Hawaiian monk seal, Neomonachus schauinslandi CR
Ross seal, Ommatophoca rossii LC
harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus LC
harbor seal, Phoca vitulina LC (ssp. vitulina - Atlantic harbor seal NE, ssp. mellonae - Ungava harbor seal NE, ssp. richardii - Pacific harbour seal NE)
spotted seal, Phoca largha DD
ringed seal, Pusa hispida LC (ssp. hispida - Arctic ringed seal NE, ssp. botnica - Baltic ringed seal NE , ssp. ochotensis - Okhotsk ringed seal NE, ssp. ladogensis - Lake Logoda ringed seal NE, ssp. saimensis - Saima seal )
Caspian seal, Pusa caspica EN
Baikal seal, Pusa sibirica LC

Ursidae

polar bear, Ursus maritimus VU

Mustelidae

sea otter, Enhydra lutris EN (ssp. kenyoni - Eastern sea oter NE, ssp. lutris - Western sea otter NE, ssp. nereis - Southern sea otter NE)
marine otter, Lontra felina EN
sea mink, Neovison macrodon EX

Footnotes

^ The use of Order Cetartiodactyla, instead of Cetacea with Suborders Odontoceti and Mysticeti, is favored by most evolutionary mammalogists working with molecular data ^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] and is supported the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group^[7] and by Taxonomy Committee ^[8] of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, the largest international association of marine mammal scientists in the world. See Cetartiodactyla and Marine mammal articles for further discussion.

References

^ "The Society for Marine Mammalogy's Taxonomy Committee List of Species and subspecies". Society for Marine Mammalogy. October 2015. Retrieved 23 Nov 2015.
^ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
^ Agnarsson, I.; May-Collado, LJ. (2008). "The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: the importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 48 (3): 964–985. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.046. PMID 18590827.
^ Price, SA.; Bininda-Emonds, OR.; Gittleman, JL. (2005). "A complete phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals – Cetartiodactyla". Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 80 (3): 445–473. doi:10.1017/s1464793105006743. PMID 16094808.
^ Montgelard, C.; Catzeflis, FM.; Douzery, E. (1997). "Phylogenetic relationships of artiodactyls and cetaceans as deduced from the comparison of cytochrome b and 12S RNA mitochondrial sequences". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14 (5): 550–559. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025792. PMID 9159933.
^ Spaulding, M.; O'Leary, MA.; Gatesy, J. (2009). "Relationships of Cetacea -Artiodactyla- Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution". PLoS ONE. 4 (9): e7062. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7062S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062. PMC 2740860. PMID 19774069.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
^ Cetacean Species and Taxonomy. iucn-csg.org
^ "The Society for Marine Mammalogy's Taxonomy Committee List of Species and subspecies".
^ Samuel T Turvey, Robert L Pitman, Barbara L Taylor, Jay Barlow, Tomonari Akamatsu, Leigh A Barrett, Xiujiang Zhao, Randall R Reeves, Brent S Stewart, Kexiong Wang, Zhuo Wei, Xianfeng Zhang, L.T Pusser, Michael Richlen, John R Brandon, Ding Wang (2007). "First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?". Biology Letters. 3 (5): 537–540. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0292. PMC 2391192. PMID 17686754.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[9] The use of Order Cetartiodactyla, instead of Cetacea with Suborders Odontoceti and Mysticeti, is favored by most evolutionary mammalogists working with molecular data ^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] and is supported the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group^[7] and by Taxonomy Committee ^[8] of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, the largest international association of marine mammal scientists in the world. See Cetartiodactyla and Marine mammal articles for further discussion.

[1] "The Society for Marine Mammalogy's Taxonomy Committee List of Species and subspecies". Society for Marine Mammalogy. October 2015. Retrieved 23 Nov 2015.

[2] "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

[3] Agnarsson, I.; May-Collado, LJ. (2008). "The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: the importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 48 (3): 964–985. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.046. PMID 18590827.

[4] Price, SA.; Bininda-Emonds, OR.; Gittleman, JL. (2005). "A complete phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals – Cetartiodactyla". Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 80 (3): 445–473. doi:10.1017/s1464793105006743. PMID 16094808.

[5] Montgelard, C.; Catzeflis, FM.; Douzery, E. (1997). "Phylogenetic relationships of artiodactyls and cetaceans as deduced from the comparison of cytochrome b and 12S RNA mitochondrial sequences". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14 (5): 550–559. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025792. PMID 9159933.

[6] Spaulding, M.; O'Leary, MA.; Gatesy, J. (2009). "Relationships of Cetacea -Artiodactyla- Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution". PLoS ONE. 4 (9): e7062. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7062S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062. PMC 2740860. PMID 19774069.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

[7] Cetacean Species and Taxonomy. iucn-csg.org

[8] "The Society for Marine Mammalogy's Taxonomy Committee List of Species and subspecies".

[10] Samuel T Turvey, Robert L Pitman, Barbara L Taylor, Jay Barlow, Tomonari Akamatsu, Leigh A Barrett, Xiujiang Zhao, Randall R Reeves, Brent S Stewart, Kexiong Wang, Zhuo Wei, Xianfeng Zhang, L.T Pusser, Michael Richlen, John R Brandon, Ding Wang (2007). "First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?". Biology Letters. 3 (5): 537–540. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0292. PMC 2391192. PMID 17686754.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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 * [[finless porpoise|Indo-pacific finless porpoise]], ''Neophocaena phocaenoides'' [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/198920/0 {{IUCN status|VU|198920}}]
-* [[Narrow-ridged finless porpoise]], ''Neophocaena asiaeorientalis'' [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41754/0 {{IUCN status|VU|41754}}], (spp. ''asiaeorientalis'' - [[finless porpoise|Yangtze finless porpoise]] [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/43205774/0 {{IUCN status|CR|43205774}}], ssp. ''sumameri'' - [[finless porpoise|East Asian finless porpoise]] (Sunameri) {{IUCN status|NE}})
+* [[Narrow-ridged finless porpoise]], ''Neophocaena asiaeorientalis'' [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41754/0 {{IUCN status|VU|41754}}], (spp. ''asiaeorientalis'' - [[Narrow-ridged finless porpoise|Yangtze finless porpoise]] [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/43205774/0 {{IUCN status|CR|43205774}}], ssp. ''sumameri'' - [[Narrow-ridged finless porpoise|East Asian finless porpoise]] (Sunameri) {{IUCN status|NE}})
 * [[spectacled porpoise]], ''Phocoena dioptrica'' [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41715/0 {{IUCN status|DD|41715}}]
 * [[harbour porpoise]], ''Phocoena phocoena'' [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/17027/0 {{IUCN status|LC|17027}}] (Baltic Sea supopoulation [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/17031/0 {{IUCN status|CR|17031}}])  (ssp. ''phocoena'' - [[harbour porpoise|Atlantic harbour porpoise]] {{IUCN status|NE}}, ssp. ''vomerina'' - [[harbour porpoise|Eastern Pacific harbour porpoise]] {{IUCN status|NE}}, ssp. ''relicta'' - [[harbour porpoise|Black Sea harbour porpoise]] [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/17030/0 {{IUCN status|EN|17030}}], unnamed ssp. [[harbour porpoise|Western Pacific harbour porpoise]] {{IUCN status|NE}})