page_title: List of mammals of Brazil
section_title: Cetacea
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Brazil / Infraclass: Eutheria / Cetacea
caption_attribution_description: Português: baleia perdida
context_page_description: Brazil has the largest mammal diversity in the world, with more than 600 described species and, probably, many yet to be discovered. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature sixty-six of these species are endangered and 40% of the threatened taxa belong to the primate group.
  658 species are listed.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
  Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories:
caption: Southern right whale breaching
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