page_title: List of mammals of the Azores
section_title: Order: Cetacea (whales)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of the Azores / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Cetacea (whales)
caption_attribution_description: Ziphius cavirostris
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Azores Islands, Portugal. Except for marine mammals and two species of bats, the Azores were completely devoid of mammals prior to their discovery in the early 15th century. All other mammals in the islands are therefore introduced species.
  The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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. Many species of cetaceans reproduce around the Azores.
  Suborder: Mysticeti
  Family: Balaenidae
  Genus: Eubalaena
  North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis CR
  Family: Balaenopteridae (rorquals)
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Northern minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC
  Sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis EN
  Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus EN
  Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus NT
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae LC
  Suborder: Odontoceti
  Family: Delphinidae (dolphins and pilot whales)
  Genus: Globicephala
  Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhyncus DD
  Long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas DD
  Genus: Grampus
  Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus DD
  Genus: Orcinus
  Killer whale, Orcinus orca DD
  Genus: Stenella
  Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba DD
  Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis DD
  Genus: Tursiops
  Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus DD
  Family: Kogiidae (small sperm whales)
  Genus: Kogia
  Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps DD
  Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima DD
  Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales)
  Genus: Physeter
  Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus VU
  Family: Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
  Genus: Hyperoodon
  Northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus DD
  Genus: Mesoplodon
  Sowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens DD
  Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris DD
  Gervais' beaked whale, Mesoplodon europaeus DD
  True's beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus DD
  Genus: Ziphius
  Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris DD
caption: A stranded Cuvier's beaked whale
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