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    List of all the extant and subrecent species of whales that are accepted by most contemporary authors. The entries are sorted after family and year of description. Kogiidae and Physeteridae are treated as separate families, as are Cetotheriidae (not mentioned) and Neobalaenidae.

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    List of all the extant and subrecent species of whales that are accepted by most contemporary authors. The entries are sorted after family and year of description. Kogiidae and Physeteridae are treated as separate families, as are Cetotheriidae (not mentioned) and Neobalaenidae.

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    Balaenidae

    Balaenopteridae
    Delphinidae
    Eschrichtiidae
    Iniidae
    Kogiidae
    Lipotidae
    Monodontidae
    Neobalaenidae
    Phocoeni
    dae
    Physeteridae
    Platanistidae
    Pontoporiidae
    Ziphiidae
    Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758
    Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758
    Monodon monoceros Linnae
    us, 1758
    Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Phocoena
    phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Physeter catodon, Syn. Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
    Sousa chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)
    Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770)
    Delphinapterus leucas (P
    allas, 1776)
    Eubalaena glacialis (Mller, 1776)
    Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
    Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801)
    Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacpde, 1804
    Cephalorhynchus commersonii (Lacpde, 1804)
    Lissodelphis peronii (Lacpde, 1804)
    Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)
    Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809)
    Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812)
    Inia geoffrensis (Blainville, 1817)
    Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville, 1817)
    Eubalaena japonica (Lacpde, 1818)
    Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
    Eubalaena australis (Des Moulins, 1822)
    Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier, 1823
    Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
    Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828
    Cephalorhynchus heavisidii (Gray, 1828)
    Delphinus capensis Gray, 1828
    Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828)

    Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828)


    Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828)
    Steno bredanensis (G. Cuvier in Lesson, 1828)
    Neophoca
    ena phocaenoides (Cuvier, 1829)
    Sousa plumbea (Cuvier, 1829)
    Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829)
    Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)
    Tursiops aduncus (Ehrenberg, 1833)
    Inia boliviensis d'Orbigny, 1834
    Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838)
    Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d Orbigny, 1844)
    Caperea marginat
    a (Gray, 1846)
    Cephalorhynchus eutropia Gray, 1846
    Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
    Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846)
    Peponocephala electra (Gray, 1846)
    Pseudorca crassidens (Owen, 1846)
    Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846)
    Stenella clymene (Gray, 1846)
    Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale, 1848)
    Lissodelphis borealis (Peale, 1848)
    Berardius arnuxii Duvernoy, 1851
    Platanista minor Owen, 1853
    Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais & Deville, 1853)
    Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855)
    Eschrichtius robustus (Lilljeborg, 1861)
    Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865
    Mesoplodon layardii (Gray, 1865)
    Phocoena
    spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865
    Kogia simus, Syn. Kogia sima (Owen, 1866
    )
    Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866)
    Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister, 1867
    Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871)
    Mesoplodon traversii, Syn. Mesoplodon bahamondi (Gray, 1874)
    Feresa attenuata Gray, 1875
    Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876
    Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879
    Cephalorhynchus hectori (P.-J. van Beneden, 1881)
    Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882
    Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883
    Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885
    Phocoeno
    ides dalli (True, 1885)
    Sousa teuszi (Kkenthal, 1892)

    Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908


    Phocoena
    dioptrica, Syn. Australophocoena dioptrica (Lahille, 1912)
    Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913
    Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918
    Indopacetus pacificus (Longman, 1926)
    Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver, 1937
    Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser, 1956
    Mesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958
    Phocoena
    sinus Norris & McFarland, 1958
    Mesoplodon carlhubbsi Moore, 1963
    Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & van Waerebeek, 1991
    Mesoplodon perrini Dalebout, Mead, Baker, Baker & van Helden, 2002
    Balaenoptera omurai Wada, Oishi & Yamada, 2003
    Orcaella heinsohni Beasley, Robertson & Arnold, 2005
    Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb et al., 2011
    Inia araguaiaensis Hrbek, Da Silva, Dutra, Faria
    s, 2014

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