last updated on April 10, 2003. |
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 |
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| 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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