Marine Mammal List
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Order: Carnivora | |
Family: Phocidae | |
Phoca vitulina | Harbor Seal * |
Order: Cetacea | |
Suborder: Odontoceti | |
Family: Phocoenidae | |
Phocoena phocoena | Harbor Porpoise |
Family: Delphinidae | |
Delphinus delphis | Short-Beaked Common Dolphin |
Stenella attenuata | Pantropical Spotted Dolphin |
Stenella clymene | Clymene Dolphin |
Stenella coeruleoalba | Striped Dolphin * |
Stenella frontalis | Atlantic Spotted Dolphin * |
Stenella longirostris | Spinner Dolphin * |
Tursiops truncatus | Bottlenose Dolphin * |
Feresa attenuata | Pygmy Killer Whale * |
Pseudorca crassidens | False Killer Whale * |
Globicephala macrorhynchus | Short-finned pilot whale * |
Peponocephala electra | Melon-headed Whale |
Grampus griseus | Risso's Dolphin * |
Lagenorhynchus acutus | Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin |
Orcinus orca | Killer Whale |
Steno bredanensis | Rough-toothed Dolphin * |
Family: Ziphiidae | |
Mesoplodon bidens | Sowerby's Beaked Whale * |
Mesoplodon densirostris | Blainville's Beaked Whale * |
Mesoplodon europaeus | Gervais' Beaked Whale * |
Mesoplodon mirus | True's Beaked Whale |
Ziphius cavirostris | Cuvier's Beaked Whale * |
Family: Kogiidae | |
Kogia breviceps | Pygmy Sperm Whale * |
Kogia sima | Dwarf Sperm Whale * |
Family: Physeteridae | |
Physeter macrocephalus | Sperm Whale |
Suborder: Mysticeti | |
Family: Balaenidae | |
Eubalaena glacialis | North Atlantic Right Whale * |
Family: Balaenopteridae | |
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Minke Whale |
Balaenoptera borealis | Sei Whale |
Balaenoptera edeni | Bryde's Whale * |
Balaenoptera musculus | Blue Whale |
Balaenoptera physalus | Fin Whale |
Megaptera novaeangliae | Humpback Whale * |
* Species occurs in the Georgia Marine Mammal Stranding database.