page_title: List of mammals of Guatemala
section_title: Order: Cetacea (whales)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Guatemala / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Order: Cetacea (whales)
caption_attribution_description: Clymene dolphins
context_page_description: This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Guatemala. Of the mammal species in Guatemala, one is critically endangered, four are endangered, four are vulnerable, and three are near threatened. One species is considered extinct.
  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:
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 (baleen whales)
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
  Sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis
  Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera brydei
  Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
  Suborder: Odontoceti
  Superfamily: Platanistoidea
  Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
  Genus: Delphinus
  Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis DD
  Genus: Feresa
  Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata DD
  Genus: Globicephala
  Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhyncus DD
  Genus: Lagenodelphis
  Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei DD
  Genus: Grampus
  Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus DD
  Genus: Orcinus
  Killer whale, Orcinus orca DD
  Genus: Peponocephala
  Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra DD
  Genus: Pseudorca
  False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens DD
  Genus: Sotalia
  Guiana dolphin, Sotalia guianensis DD
  Genus: Stenella
  Pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata DD
  Clymene dolphin, Stenella clymene DD
  Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba DD
  Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis DD
  Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris DD
  Genus: Steno
  Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis DD
  Genus: Tursiops
  Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
  Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales)
  Genus: Physeter
  Sperm whale, Physeter catodon DD
  Family: Kogiidae (dwarf sperm whales)
  Genus: Kogia
  Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps DD
  Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima DD
  Superfamily Ziphioidea
  Family: Ziphidae (beaked whales)
  Genus: Mesoplodon
  Gervais' beaked whale, Mesoplodon europaeus DD
  Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon ginkgodens DD
  Pygmy beaked whale, Mesoplodon peruvianus DD
  Genus: Ziphius
  Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris DD
caption: Clymene dolphin
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