page_title: List of mammals of Svalbard and Jan Mayen
section_title: Order: Cetacea (whales)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Svalbard and Jan Mayen / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Cetacea (whales)
context_page_description: This is a list of mammal species recorded in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. There are seventeen mammal species in Svalbard and Jan Mayen, of which three are endangered and three are vulnerable.
  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: Balaenidae (right whales)
  Genus: Balaena
  Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus EN
  Genus: Eubalaena
  North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis CR
  Family: Balaenopteridae (rorquals)
  Subfamily: Balaenopterinae
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC
  Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus EN
  Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus EN
  Subfamily: Megapterinae
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae LC
  Suborder: Odontoceti
  Superfamily: Delphinoidea
  Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
  Genus: Lagenorhynchus
  Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus LC
  White-beaked dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris LC
  Genus: Orcinus
  Killer whale, Orcinus orca DD
  Family: Monodontidae (narwhal and beluga)
  Genus: Monodon
  Narwhal, Monodon monoceros LC
  Genus: Delphinapterus
  Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas LC
  Family: Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
  Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae
  Genus: Hyperoodon
  Northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus DD
caption: North Atlantic right whale and calf
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