List of marine mammal species

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. 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) 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
IUCN conservation statusesExtinctionExtinctionExtinct in the wildCritically EndangeredEndangered speciesVulnerable speciesNear ThreatenedThreatened speciesLeast ConcernLeast Concern

Order Cetartiodactyla

Footnote on use of Cetartiodactyla

Cetacea

Mysticeti

Balaenidae

Balaenopteridae

Neobalaenidae

Eschrichtiidae

Odontoceti

Physeteridae

Kogiidae

Ziphiidae

DD

Platanistidae

Iniidae

Lipotidae

  • Baiji, Lipotes vexillifer CR, possibly EX

Pontoporiidae

Monodontidae

Delphinidae

Phocoenidae

Order Sirenia

Trichechidae

Dugongidae

Order Carnivora

Pinnipedia

Otariidae

Odobenidae

Phocidae

Ursidae

Mustelidae

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ The use of Order Cetartiodactyla, instead of Cetacea with Suborders Odontoceti and Mysticeti, is favored by most evolutionary mammalogists working with molecular data and is supported by the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group and by the Taxonomy Committee 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.

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