page_title: List of mammals of the Solomon Islands archipelago
section_title: Order: Cetacea (whales)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of the Solomon Islands archipelago / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Cetacea (whales)
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Solomon Islands archipelago. The geographical area covered by this article refers to the archipelago of the Solomon Islands, which includes Bougainville Island, a province of Papua New Guinea, as well as the group of islands that make up the nation state of Solomon Islands. Within this area there are sixty-three mammal species of which four are critically endangered, one is endangered, and fifteen are vulnerable.
  Three of the species listed for the Solomon Islands are considered to be extinct.
  The marine mammals of the order Cetacea that have been identified in the Pacific is described in the literature review by Miller and by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. A revision of the list of cetaceans reported in the ocean surrounding the Solomon Islands was carried by Miller.
  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.
  Suborder: Mysticeti
  Family: Balaenopteridae
  Subfamily: Balaenopterinae
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Rorqual baleen whale: either Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera brydei or sei whale, B. borealis DD
  Subfamily: Megapterinae
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae VU
  Suborder: Odontoceti
  Superfamily: Platanistoidea
  Family: Ziphidae
  Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae
  Genus: Mesoplodon
  Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris DD
  Family: Physeteridae
  Genus: Physeter
  Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus vulnerable species VU
  Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
  Genus: Peponocephala
  Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra LC (now rarely found in the Solomon Islands)
  Genus: Globicephala
  Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus DD
  Genus: Steno
  Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis LC
  Genus: Stenella
  Pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata LC
  Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba LC
  Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris DD
  Genus: Lagenodelphis
  Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei LC
  Genus: Grampus
  Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus LC
  Genus: Tursiops
  Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus LC
  Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops aduncus NT
  Genus: Feresa
  Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata DD
  Genus: Pseudorca
  False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens DD
  Genus: Orcinus
  Orca, Orcinus orca DD
caption: Humpback whale
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