page_title: List of mammals of Greenland
section_title: Infraorder: Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Greenland / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Superorder: Laurasiatheria / Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates and cetaceans) / Infraorder: Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)
caption_attribution_description: A pod of narwhals. Note the spiral configuration of the single tusk.
context_page_description: This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Greenland. There are 26 mammal species native to Greenland, of which none are critically endangered, three are endangered, three are vulnerable, two are near threatened and four are data deficient. Only seven of these species are fully terrestrial. Introduced species are not included.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; those on the left are used here, those on the right in some other articles:
context_section_description: The infraorder Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Their closest extant relatives are the hippos, which are artiodactyls, from which cetaceans descended; cetaceans are thus also artiodactyls.
  Parvorder: Mysticeti
  Family: Balaenidae
  Genus: Balaena
  Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus LC
  Genus: Eubalaena
  North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis EN
  Family: Balaenopteridae
  Subfamily: Balaenopterinae
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Northern minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC
  North Atlantic minke whale, B. a. acutorostrata
  Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus EN
  Northern blue whale, B. m. musculus
  Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus VU
  Northern fin whale, B. p. physalus
  Subfamily: Megapterinae
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae LC
  Parvorder: Odontoceti
  Superfamily: Platanistoidea
  Family: Monodontidae
  Genus: Monodon
  Narwhal, Monodon monoceros LC
  Genus: Delphinapterus
  Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas LC
  Family: Phocoenidae
  Genus: Phocoena
  Harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena LC
  North Atlantic harbour porpoise, P. p. phocoena
  Family: Physeteridae
  Genus: Physeter
  Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus VU
  Family: Ziphidae
  Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae
  Genus: Hyperoodon
  Northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus DD
  Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
  Genus: Tursiops
  Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus LC
  Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, T. t. truncatus
  Genus: Stenella
  Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba LC
  Genus: Lagenorhynchus
  Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus LC
  White-beaked dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris LC
  Genus: Orcinus
  Orca, Orcinus orca DD
  Genus: Globicephala
  Long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas LC
caption: A pod of narwhals
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