Marine Mammals
Table 1
Marine mammals occurring in the MBNMS, including federal and state species status.
Key
- FE-Federally listed endangered
- FT-Federally listed threatened
- ST-State listed threatened
- D-Depleted (under the Marine Mammal Protection Act Special Status)
Pinnipeds
COMMON NAME |
SPECIES NAME |
STATUS |
northern elephant seal |
Mirounga angustirostris |
|
harbor seal |
Phoca vitulina |
|
California sea lion |
Zalophus californianus |
|
Steller sea lion |
Eumetopias jubatus |
FT |
northern fur seal |
Callorhinus ursinus |
D |
Guadalupe fur seal |
Arctocephalus townsendi |
FT, ST |
Cetaceans
COMMON NAME |
SPECIES NAME |
STATUS |
blue whale |
Balaenoptera musculus |
FE |
fin whale |
Balaenoptera physalus |
FE |
sei whale |
Balaenoptera borealis |
FE |
minke whale |
Balaenoptera acutorostrata |
|
humpback whale |
Megaptera novaeangliae |
FE |
California gray whale |
Eschrichtius robustus |
|
North Pacific right whale |
Eubalaena japonica |
FE |
sperm whale |
Physeter macrocephalus |
FE |
pygmy sperm whale |
Kogia breviceps |
|
dwarf sperm whale |
Kogia simus |
|
Baird's beaked whale |
Berardius bairdii |
|
Cuvier's beaked whale |
Ziphius cavirostris |
|
Hubbs' beaked whale |
Mesoplodon carlhubbsi |
|
short-finned pilot whale |
Globicephala macrorhynchus |
|
killer whale |
Orcinus orca |
|
false killer whale |
Pseudorca crassidens |
|
Pacific white-sided dolphin |
Lagenorhynchus obliquidens |
|
northern right whale dolphin |
Lissodelphis borealis |
|
Risso's dolphin |
Grampus griseus |
|
short-beaked common dolphin |
Delphinus delphinus |
|
long-beaked common dolphin |
Delphinus capensis |
|
bottlenose dolphin |
Tursiops truncatus |
|
striped dolphin |
Stenella coeruleoalba |
|
Dall's porpoise |
Phocoenoides dalli |
|
harbor porpoise |
Phocoena phocoena |
|
Blainville's beaked whale |
Mesoplodon densirostris |
|
Lesser beaked whale |
Mesoplodon preuvianus |
|
Stejneger's beaked whale |
Mesoplodon stejnegeri |
|
Bryde's beaked whale |
Mesoplodon edeni |
Fissipeds
COMMON NAME |
SPECIES NAME |
STATUS |
southern sea otter |
Enhydra lutris |
FT |