page_title: List of mammals of Mexico
section_title: Infraorder: Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Mexico / Subclass: Theria / Infraclass: Eutheria / Superorder: Laurasiatheria / Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates and cetaceans) / Infraorder: Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Un dauphin d'Electre ou péponocéphale (Peponocephala electra), observé à Mayotte. Nord de l'îlot des sternes, environ 10m de profondeur. English: A Melon-headed dolphin (Peponocephala electra), observed in Mayotte. Español: Un Delfín de cabeza de melón (Peponocephala electra), visto en Mayotte. Italiano: Un peponocefalo (Peponocephala electra), visto in Mayotte. Deutsch: Mayotte beobachteter Breitschnabeldelfin (Peponocephala electra). Čeština: Elektra tmavá (Peponocephala electra), pozorovaná na Mayotte. Русский: Широкомордый дельфин (Peponocephala electra), Майотта. 中文: 瓜头鲸 (Peponocephala electra), 马约特. 日本語: カズハゴンドウ (Peponocephala electra), マヨット. العربية: .مايوت ,(Peponocephala electra) حوت بطيخي الرأس
context_page_description: This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Mexico. As of September 2014, there were 536 mammalian species or subspecies listed. Based on IUCN data, Mexico has 23% more noncetacean mammal species than the U.S. and Canada combined in an area only 10% as large, or a species density over 12 times that of its northern neighbors. Mexico's high mammal biodiversity is in part a reflection of the wide array of biomes present over its latitudinal, climatic and altitudinal ranges, from lowland tropical rainforest to temperate desert to montane forest to alpine tundra. The general increase in terrestrial biodiversity moving towards the equator is another important factor in the comparison. Mexico includes much of the Mesoamerican and Madrean pine-oak woodlands biodiversity hotspots. From a biogeographic standpoint, most of Mexico is linked to the rest of North America as part of the Nearctic realm. However, the lowlands of southern Mexico are linked with Central America and South America as part of the Neotropical realm.
context_section_description: The infraorder 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. Their closest extant relatives are the hippos, which are artiodactyls, from which cetaceans descended; cetaceans are thus also artiodactyls. Lagoons on the coast of Baja California Sur provide calving grounds for the eastern Pacific population of gray whales. The vaquita of the northern Gulf of California is the world's smallest and most endangered cetacean.
  Parvorder: Mysticeti
  Family: Balaenopteridae
  Subfamily: Balaenopterinae
  Genus: Balaenoptera
  Northern minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata LC
  Northern sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis borealis EN
  Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni DD critically endangered population in Gulf of Mexico
  Northern blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus musculus EN
  North Atlantic fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus physalus EN
  North Pacific fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus velifera EN
  Subfamily: Megapterinae
  Genus: Megaptera
  Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae LC
  Family: Eschrichtiidae
  Genus: Eschrichtius
  Eastern gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus LC
  Atlantic gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus EX
  Family: Balaenidae
  Genus: Eubalaena
  North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica CR extremely rare
  North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis CR possibly seen historically
  Parvorder: Odontoceti
  Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales)
  Genus: Physeter
  Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus VU
  Family: Kogiidae
  Genus: Kogia
  Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps DD
  Dwarf sperm whale, Kogia sima DD
  Family: Ziphidae
  Genus: Ziphius
  Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris LC
  Genus: Berardius
  Baird's beaked whale, Berardius bairdii DD
  Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae
  Genus: Indopacetus
  Tropical bottlenose whale, Indopacetus pacificus DD
  Genus: Mesoplodon
  Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris DD
  Gervais' beaked whale, Mesoplodon europaeus DD
  Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon ginkgodens DD
  Pygmy beaked whale, Mesoplodon peruvianus DD
  Superfamily: Delphinoidea
  Family: Phocoenidae (porpoises)
  Genus: Phocoena
  Vaquita, Phocoena sinus CR
  Genus: Phocoenoides
  Dall's porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli LC
  Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
  Genus: Steno
  Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis LC
  Genus: Tursiops
  Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus LC
  Genus: Stenella
  Pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata LC
  Clymene dolphin, Stenella clymene DD
  Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba LC
  Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis DD
  Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris DD
  Genus: Delphinus
  Long-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus capensis DD
  Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis LC
  Genus: Lagenodelphis
  Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei LC
  Genus: Lagenorhynchus
  Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens LC
  Genus: Lissodelphis
  Northern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis LC
  Genus: Grampus
  Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus LC
  Genus: Peponocephala
  Melon-headed whale, Peponocephala electra LC
  Genus: Feresa
  Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata DD
  Genus: Pseudorca
  False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens DD
  Genus: Orcinus
  Orca, Orcinus orca DD
  Genus: Globicephala
  Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus DD
caption: Melon-headed whale
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