Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico

Baleen Whales  Mysticet

      Northern Right Whale Eubalanea glacialis                     Blue Whale Balenoptera musculus

     Humpback Whale Magaptera novaeangliae                          Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus

     Sei Whale Blaenoptera borealis                                     Minke Whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata

     Bryde's Whale Balaenoptera edeni

Toothed Whales and Dolphins Odontoceti

     Sperm Whale Physter macrochepalus                                        Melon-headed Whale Peponocephala electra

      Dwarf Sperm Whale Kogia simus                                               Rough-toothed Dolphin Steno bredanensis

      Pygmy Sperm Whale Kogia breviceps                                       Risso's Dolphin Grampus griseus

     Cuvier's Beaked Whale Ziphius cavirostris                               Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus

     Blainville's Beaked Whale Meoplodon densirostris                 Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Stenella attenuata

     Sowerby's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon bidens                        Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Stenella frontalis

     Gervais' Beaked Whale Mesoplodon europaeus                      Spinner Dolphin Stenella longirostris

     Orca Orcinus orca                                                                              Clymene Dolphin Stenella clymene

     Short-finned Pilot Whale Globicephala macrorhynchus        Striped Dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba

     Long-finned Pilot Whale Golbicephala melas                           Common Dolphin Selpinus delphis

     False Killer Whale Pseudorca crassidens                                    Long-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus capensis

     Pygmy Killer Whale Feresa attenuata                                          Fraser's Dolphin Lagenodelphis bosei

Sirenia

     West Indian Manatee Trichechus manatus