page_title: List of mammals of Pakistan
section_title: Order: Cetacea (whales)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Pakistan / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Cetacea (whales)
caption_attribution_description: English: Pakistan Museum of Natural History This is a photo of a monument in Pakistan identified as the ICT-7
context_page_description: This list of the mammals of Pakistan shows the conservation status of the 173 mammal species occurring in Pakistan, of which 12 are critically endangered, 11 are endangered, 14 are vulnerable, and 10 are near threatened. The largest mammal in Pakistan is the Asiatic brown bear. Capra falconeri, the markhor, is the national animal of Pakistan.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed on the IUCN Red List:
  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:
context_section_description: The order 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.
  Suborder: Mysticeti
  Family: Balaenopteridae
  Subfamily: Balaenopterinae
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni DD
  Pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda EN
  Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus EN
  Subfamily: Megapterinae
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae VU (world's most isolated, most endangered, and only non-migratory population)
  Suborder: Odontoceti
  Superfamily: Platanistoidea
  Family: Platanistidae
  Genus: Platanista
  Indus river dolphin, (national marine mammal of Pakistan) Platanista minor minor EN
  Family: Phocoenidae
  Genus: Neophocaena
  Finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides DD
  Family: Kogiidae
  Genus: Kogia
  Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps LR/lc
  Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima LR/lc
  Family: Physeteridae
  Genus: Physeter
  Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus VU
  Family: Ziphidae
  Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae
  Genus: Mesoplodon
  Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris DD
  Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon ginkgodens DD
  Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
  Genus: Steno
  Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis DD
  Genus: Sousa
  Sousa chinensis DD
  Genus: Tursiops
  Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops aduncus DD
  Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus DD
  Genus: Stenella
  Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris LR/cd
  Genus: Delphinus
  Common dolphin, Delphinus capensis LR/lc
  Genus: Lagenodelphis
  Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei DD
  Genus: Grampus
  Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus DD
  Genus: Peponocephala
  Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra LR/lc
  Genus: Feresa
  Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata DD
  Genus: Orcinus
  Killer whale, Orcinus orcaDD
caption: Pygmy blue whale skeleton at the Pakistan Museum of Natural History
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