Checklist of Species

By: A. H. Kopelman

Cetaceans, Pelagic Birds, Seals, and Sea Turtles

  • CETACEA

    • Suborder Mysticeti. The baleen whales

      • Family Balaenidae. Right Whales

        • Eubalaena glacialis (Northern right whale)
      • Family Balaenopteridae. Rorquals
        • Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale)
        • Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale)
        • Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale)
        • Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale)
        • Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale)
    • Suborder Odontoceti. The toothed whales
      • Family Delphinidae. Dolphins
        • Delphinus delphis (common dolphin)
        • Globicephala melas (long finned pilot whale)
        • Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin)
        • Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin)
        • Lagenorhynchus albirostris (white beaked dolphin)
        • Orcinus orca (killer whale)
        • Stenella attenuata (pantropical spotted dolphin)
        • Stenella coeruleoalba (striped dolphin)
        • Tursiops truncatus truncatus (Offshore common bottlenose dolphin)
        • Tursiops erebennus (Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (formerly Inshore bottlenose dolphin))
    • Family Kogiidae. Pygmy sperm whales
      • Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale)
    • Family Monodontidae. Beluga and narwhal
      • Delphinapterus leucas (beluga whale)
    • Family Phocoenidae. Porpoises
      • Phocoena phocoena (harbor porpoise)
    • Family Physeteridae. Sperm whale
      • Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale)
    • Family Ziphiidae. Beaked whales
      • Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)
      • Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby's beaked whales)
      • Mesoplodon mirus (True's beaked whale)

 

  • PELAGIC BIRDS

    • Family Diomedeidae

      • Diomedea chlororhyncos (Yellow-nosed Albatross)
    • Family Laridae
      • Chroicophalus philadelphia (Bonaparte’s Gull)
      • Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern)
      • Larus argentatus (Herring Gull)
      • Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed Gull)
      • Larus hyperboreus (Glaucus Gull)
      • Larus marinus (Greater Black-backed Gull)
      • Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing Gull)
      • Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger)
      • Stercorarius pomarinus (Pomarine Jaeger)
      • Sterna dougallii (Roseate Tern)
      • Sterna hirundo (Common Tern)
      • Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern)
      • Thalasseus maximus (Royal Tern)
    • Family Hydrobatidae
      • Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson’s Storm Petrel)
      • Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach’s Storm Petrel)
    • Family Phalacrocoracidae
      • Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested Cormorant)
      • Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)
    • Family Phalaropodidae
      • Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson’s Phalarope)
      • Phalaropus lobatus (Red-necked Phalarope)
    • Family Procellariidae
      • Calonectris borealis (Cory’s Shearwater)
      • Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli’s Shearwater)
      • Fulmarus glacialis (Northern Fulmar)
      • Ardenna gravis (Great Shearwater)
      • Ardenna grisea (Sooty Shearwater)
      • Puffinus lherminieri (Audubon’s Shearwater)
      • Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater)
    • Family Sulidae
      • Sula bassana (Northern Gannet)

 

  • PINNIPEDIA

    • Family Phocidae (true seals)

      • Cystophora cristata (hooded seal)
      • Halichoerus grypus (grey seal)
      • Pagophilus groenlandicus (harp seal)
      • Phoca hispida (ringed seal)
      • Phoca vitulina (harbor seal)

 

  • SEA TURTLES

    • Family Cheloniidae

      • Chelonia mydas (Green Turtle)
      • Caretta caretta (Loggerhead)
      • Lepidochelys kempi (Kemp's Ridley)
    • Family Dermochelyidae
      • Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle)

 

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