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What follows is a table of all the Whale and Dolphin species known to me (which might not be all of them, I don't claim for an instant to know them all). At this point I'm only planning on creating information pages on the Dolphin species, not the whale species since this is a primarily Dolphin site. If there is enough call for it, I may consider doing the Whale pages in the future as well. For now I am only including their names for those people who wish to see where Dolphins fit into the hiarchy of things.

Note: several words contain links to their respective definitions in the Cetacean Glossary.

I am still in the process of completing the individual pages for each species. Those indicated with a are the ones which I have completed. If you are looking for a specific one please Email me and I will try to get that one done next.

MYSTICETI Balaenidae:
�����Bowhead Whale
�����Right Whale
Balaenopteridae:
�����Blue whale
�����Bryde's whale
�����Fin whale
�����Humpback whale
�����Minke whale
�����Sei whale
Eschrichtiidae:
�����Gray whale
Neobalaenidae:
�����Pygmy right whale
ODONTOCETI Delphinidae:
�����Atlantic spotted dolphin
�����Atlantic white-sided dolphin
�����Bottlenose dolphin
�����Bridled dolphin
�����Chilean dolphin
�����Clymene dolphin
�����Commersons's dolphin
�����Common dolphin
�����Dusky dolphin
�����Fraser's dolphin
�����Heaviside's dolphin
�����Hector's dolphin
�����Hourglass dolphin
�����Humpback dolphin
�����Northern right whale dolphin
�����Pacific white-sided dolphin
�����Peale's dolphin
�����Risso's dolphin
�����Rough toothed dolphin
�����Southern right whale dolphin
�����Spinner dolphin
�����Striped dolphin
�����Tucuxi dolphin
�����White beaked dolphin
Globicephalidae:
�����False killer whale
�����Killer whale
�����Long-finned pilot whale
�����Melon-headed whale
�����Pygmy killer whale
�����Short-finned pilot whale
Kogidae:
�����Dwarf sperm whale
�����Pygmy sperm whale
Monodontidae:
�����Beluga
�����Irrawaddy dolphin
�����Narwhal
�����Phocaenidae
�����Burmeister's porpoise
�����Dall's porpoise
�����Finless porpiose
�����Harbor porpoise
�����Spectacled porpoise
�����Vaquita
Physteridae:
�����Sperm whale
Planaeistoidae:
�����Amazon river dolphin
�����Chinese river dolphin
�����La Plata river dolphin
�����Ganges river dolphin
�����Indus river dolphin
Ziphiidae:
�����Andrew's beaked whale
�����Arnoux's beaked whale
�����Baird's beaked whale
�����Blainville's beaked whale
�����Cuvier's beaked whale
�����Gervais' beaked whale
�����Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
�����Gray's beaked whale
�����Hector's beaked whale
�����Hubb's beaked whale
�����Longman's beaked whale
�����Northern bottlenose whale
�����Shepherd's beaked whale
�����Southern bottlenose whale
�����Sowerby's beaked whale
�����Stejneger's beaked whale
�����Strap-toothed whale
�����True's beaked whale

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