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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