Home

iSealife.com

iSealife Mammals! - An educational species guide to our sealife treasures!

Whales

Cetacea - the site which provides you with complete background information on every species of whale, dolphin and porpoise known to humankind - so either search for a specific species or simply browse through the site!

• Balaena mysticetus Bowhead Whale Also known as Great Polar Whale or Arctic Whale or Arctic Right Whale or Greenland Right Whale or Greenland Whale.
• Eubalaena australis Southern Right Whale Also known as Black Right Whale or Right Whale.
• Eubalaena ? Northern Right Whale Also known as Black Right Whale or Right Whale or Biscayan Right Whale.
• Eubalaena japonica(?) Japanese Right Whale Separation from Northern Right Whale uncertain.
• Caperea marginata Pygmy Right Whale.
• Eschrichtius robustus Gray Whale Also known as California Gray Whale or Devilfish or Mussel-digger or Scrag Whale.
• Balaenoptera acutorostrata Minke Whale Also known as Pikehead or Little Piked Whale or Pike Whale or Little Finner or Sharp-headed Finner or Lesser Finback or Lesser Rorqual.
• Balaenoptera borealis Sei Whale Also known as Pollack Whale or Coalfish Whale or Sardine Whale or Japan Finner or Rudolphi's Rorqual.
• Balaenoptera edeni Bryde's Whale Also known as Tropical Whale
• Balaenoptera musculus Blue WhaleAlso known as Sulfur-bottom or Sibbald's Rorqual or Great Northern Rorqual
• Balaenoptera physalus Fin WhaleAlso known as Finback or Finner Or Common Rorqual or Razorback or Herring Whale
• Megaptera novaengliae Humpback Whale.
• Kogia breviceps Pygmy Sperm Whale Also known as Lesser Sperm Whale or Short-headed Sperm Whale or Lesser Cachalot.
• Kogia simus Dwarf Sperm Whale Also known as Owen's Pygmy Sperm Whale.
• Physeter macrocephalus Sperm Whale Also known as Great Sperm Whale or Cachalot.
• Delphinapterus leucas Beluga Also known as Belukha or Sea Canary or White Whale.
• Monodon monoceros Narwhal Also known as Narwhale.
• Berardius arnuxiiArnoux's Beaked Whale Also known as Southern Four-toothed Whale or Southern Beaked Whale or New Zealand Beaked Whale or Southern Giant Bottlenose Whale or Southern Porpoise.
• Whale Berardius bairdi Baird's Beaked Whale Also known as North Pacific Four-toothed Whale or Northern Four-toothed.
• Whale or North Pacific Bottlenose Whale or Northern Giant Bottlenose Whale or Giant Four-toothed Whale.
• Hyperodon ampullatus Northern Bottlenose Whale North Atlantic Bottlenosed Whale or Flathead or Bottlehead or Steephead.
• Mesoplodon species 'A' Unamed Beaked Whale
• Mesoplodon bidens Sowerby's Beaked Whale Also known as North Sea Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews' Beaked Whale Also known as Splay-toothed Beaked Whale or Bowdoin's Beaked Whale or Deepcrest Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon carlhubbsi Hubbs' Beaked Whale Also known as Arch-beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon densirostris Blainville's Beaked Whale Also known as Atlantic Beaked Whale or Dense Beaked Whale or Tropical Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais' Beaked Whale Also known as Gulf Stream Beaked Whale or European Beaked Whale or Antillean Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon ginkgodens Ginko-toothed Beaked Whale Also known as Japanese Beaked Whale or Ginko Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon grayi Gray's Beaked Whale Also known as Scamperdown Whale or Southern Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon hectori Hector's Beaked Whale Also known as New Zealand Beaked Whale or Skew-beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon layardii Strap-toothed Whale Also known as Layard's Beaked Whale or Strap-tooth Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon mirus True's Beaked Whale Also known as Wonderful Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon pacificus Longman's Beaked Whale Also known as Pacific Beaked Whale or Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon peruvianus Lesser Beaked Whale Also known as Peruvian Beaked Whale or Pygmy Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon stejnegeri Stejneger's Beaked Whale Also known as Saber-toothed Beaked Whale or Bering Sea Beaked Whale or North Pacific Beaked Whale.
• Mesoplodon shepherdi Shepherd's Beaked Whale Also known as Tasman Whale or Tasman Beaked Whale.
• Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier's Beaked Whale Also known as Cuvier's Whale or Goose-beaked Whale or Goosebeak Whale.
• Feresa attenuat Pygmy Killer Whale Also known as Slender Blackfish or Slender Pilot Whale.
• Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-finned Pilot Whale Also known as Pothead Whale (!) or Shortfin Pilot Whale or Pacific Pilot Whale.

Dolphins

• Lissodelphis borealis Northern Rightwhale Dolphin Also known as Pacific Rightwhale Porpoise.
• Lissodelphis peronii Southern Rightwhale Dolphin Also known as Mealy-mouthed Porpoise.
• Sotalia fluviatilis Tucuxi Also known as Estuarine Dolphin.
• Sousa chinensis Indo-pacific Hump-backed Dolphin
• Sousa teuszii Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin Also known as Atlantic Humpback Dolphin or Cameroon Dolphin.
• Sousa chinensis Indo-pacific Hump-backed Dolphin Closely related to Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin and may form one species.
• The name Speckled Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) given to animals west of Sumatra.
• Stenella coeruleoalba Striped Dolphin Also known as Euphrosyne Dolphin or Whitebelly or Blue-white Dolphin or Meyen's Dolphin or Gray's Dolphin or Streaker Dolphin.
• Stenella clymene Clymene Dolphin Also known as Short-snouted Spinner Dolphin or Helmet Dolphin or Senegal Dolphin Stenella longirostris Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin Also known as Longsnout or Spinner or Long-beaked Dolphin or Rollover.
• Stenella attenuata Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Also known as Spotted Dolphin or White-spotted Dolphin or Bridled Dolphin or Spotter or Spotted Porpoise or Slender-beaked Dolphin.
• Stenella frontalis Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Also known as Spotted Porpoise or Spotter or Bridled Dolphin or Gulf Stream Spotted Dolphin or Long-snouted Dolphin (formally Stenella plagiodon).
• Steno bredanensis Rough-toothed Dolphin Also known as Slopehead.
• Tursiops truncatus Bottlenose Dolphin Taxonomy complex. May involve several distinct species. Also known as Gray Porpoise or Black Porpoise or Bottle-nosed Dolphin or Cowfish
• Cephalorhynchus commersonii Commerson's Dolphin Also known as Skunk dolphin or Piebald Dolphin or Black-and-white Dolphin or Jacobite or Puffing Pig.
• Cephalorhynchus eutropia Black Dolphin Also known as White-bellied Dolphin or Chilean Dolphin or Chilean Black Dolphin.
• Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Heaviside's Dolphin Also known as South African Dolphin or Benguela Dolphin.
• Cephalorhynchus hectori Hector's Dolphin Also known as Little Pied Dolphin or New Zealand Dolphin or New Zealand White-front Dolphin.
• Grampus griseus Risso's Dolphin Also known as Grampus or Gray Grampus or Gray Dolphin or White-head Grampus.
• Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser's Dolphin Also known as Sarawak Dolphin or Shortsnout Dolphin or Bornean Dolphin or White-bellied Dolphin or Fraser's Porpoise.
• Lagenorhynchus acutus Atlantic White-sided Dolphin Also known as Jumper or Spinger or Lag or Atlantic White-sided Porpoise.
• Lagenorhynchus albirostris White-beaked Dolphin Also known as White-nosed Dolphin or Squidhound or White-beaked Porpoise.
• Lagenorhynchus australis Peale's Dolphin Also known as Blackchin Dolphin or Peale's Black-chinned Dolphin or Southern Dolphin or Peal's Porpoise.
• Lagenorhynchus cruciger Hourglass Dolphin Also known as Wilson's Dolphin or Southern White-sided Dolphin.
• Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Pacific White-sided Dolphin Also known as Lag or Pacific Striped Dolphin or White-striped Dolphin or Hook-finned Porpoise.
• Lagenorhynchus obscurus Dusky Dolphin Also known as Fitzroy's Dolphin.
• Orcaella brevirostris Irrawaddy Dolphin Also known as Snubfin Dolphin.
• Inia geoffrensis Boto Also known as Amazon River Dolphin or Pink Porpoise or Pink Dolphin.
• Lipotes vexilliferBaiji Also known as Yangtze River Dolphin or Beiji or Pei C'hi or Whitefin Dolphin or Whiteflag Dolphin or Chinese River Dolphin.
• Platanista minor Indus River Dolphin Also known as Indus Susu or Blind River Dolphin or Side-swimming Dolphin.
• Platanista ??? Ganges River Dolphin Also known as Ganges Susu or Gangetic Dolphin or Blind River Dolphin or Side-swimming Dolphin.
• Potoporia blainvilleir Franciscana Also known as La Plata Dolphin.
• Neophocaena ohocaenoides Finless Porpoise Also known as Black Porpoise (!) or Black Finless Porpoise or Jiangzhu.
• Australophocaena dioptrica Spectacled Porpoise Formally Phocoena dioptrica.
• Phocoena phocoena Harbor Porpoise Also known as Puffing Pig or Common Porpoise.
• Phocoena sinus Vaquita Also known as Cochito or Gulf of California Porpoise.
• Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister's Porpoise Also known as Black Porpoise (!).
• Phocoenoides dalli Dall's Porpoise Also known as Spray Porpoise or True's Porpoise or White-flanked Porpoise.

"With ever-increasing threats from sources such as pollution, over-fishing, marine debris, entanglement in fishing gear and intentional killing, pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) worldwide have a greater need than ever for protection. The Seal Conservation Society helps with that protection by promoting the conservation, welfare and study of the 33 living pinniped species."

Pinipeds - Fur Seals

• Arctocephalus australis South American Fur Seal.
• Arctocephalus forsteri New Zealand Fur Seal.
• Arctocephalus gazella Antarctic Fur Seal.
• Arctocephalus philippi Juan Fernandez Fur Seal(ENDANGERED).
• Arctocephalus pusillus South African Fur Seal.
• Arctocephalus townsendi Guadaloupe Fur Seal (ENDANGERED).
• Arctocephalus galapagoensis Galapagos Fur Seal.
• Arctocephalus tropicalis Subantarctic Fur Seal.
• Callorhinus ursinus Northern Fur Seal Also known as Pribilof or Alaskan Fur Seal.

Sealions

• Neophoca cinerea Australian Sealion.
• Phocarctos hookeri New Zealand Sealion.
• Otaria byronia South American Sealion.
• Zalophus californianus Californian Sealion.
• Eumetopias jubatus Steller's Sealion.

Walrus

• Odobenus rosmarus Walrus.

Seals

• Cystophora cristata Hooded Seal.
• Erignathus barbatus Bearded Seal.
• Halichoerus grypus Gray Seal.
• Hydrurga leptonyx Leopard Seal.
• Leptonychotes weddellii Weddell Seal.
• Lobodon carcinophagus Crabeater Seal.
• Mirounga angustirostris Northern Elephant Seal.
• Mirounga leonina Southern Elephant Seal.
• Monachus monachus Mediterranean Monk Seal(ENDANGERED).
• Monachus schauinslandi Hawaiian Monk Seal(ENDANGERED).
• Monachus tropicalis West Indian Monk Seal.
• Ommatophoca rossii Ross' Seal.
• Phoca caspica Caspian Seal.
• Phoca fasciata Ribbon Seal.
• Phoca groenlandica Harp Seal.
• Phoca hispida Ringed Seal.
• P. h. saimaa Saimaa Seal (ENDANGERED).
• Phoca largha Larga Seal Formally considered conspecific with Common Seal Phoca sibirica Baikal Seal.
• Phoca vitulina Common Seal Also known as Harbor Seal.

Seacows or Sirenians

• Dugong dugon Dugong.
• Dugong gigas Steller's Seacow(PRESUMED EXTINCT).
• Trichechus manatus Manatee.

Marine Ecological Reserves

• Race Rocks

International Wildlife Coalition

• IWC

Related Sites

• Ocean.com "It is the mission of Ocean.com to provide ‘ocean people’ from around the world with a comprehensive and centralized source of ocean news, entertainment, and commerce. By utilizing the best of technology, science, and photography, we seek to communicate the beauty and importance of the global ocean. To the millions of ‘ocean people’ who live on this Blue Planet, we offer humbly, "This is your home."