Marine Mammal Species of the Gulf Coast
Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico
| Atlantic bottlenose
dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) Pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia simus) Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) Melonheaded whale (Peponocephala electra) False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) |
Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene) Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) Rough toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) Killer whale (Orcinus orca) Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) |
The following marine mammals can be found in the Gulf of Mexico, but are rare:
| Sei whale (Balaenoprera borealis) Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni) Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) |
Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens), one reported from
Florida. Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) |
Marine mammals around the world:
| Amazon River Dolphin
(Inia geoffrensis) Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Dall's Porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) |
Hump-Back Dolphins (Sousa teuszii) Northern Right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) True's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon mirus) Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) |