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Marine Mammals of Hawai′i
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What’s in Hawai′i?? Cetacea Mysticeti Balaenopteridae Humpback whale, Megaptera noveangliae (C) Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata (U) Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus (R) Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus (R) Odontoceti Physeteridae Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus (C) C-Common U-Uncommon R-Rare
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Cetacea Odonticeti Delphinidae Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus (R) Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (C) Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris (C) Spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata (C) Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba (U) What’s in Hawai′i??
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Cetacea Odonticeti Delphinidae Short- finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus (C) Pygmy killer whale, Feresa attenuata (U) False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens (C) Killer whale, Orcinus orca (U) What’s in Hawai′i??
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Cetacea Odonticeti Delphinidae Short- beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphisphinus (C) Fraser’s dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei (R) Pacific white- sided dolphin, Lagenodelphis obliquidens (R) What’s in Hawai′i??
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Cetacea Odonticeti Delphinidae Northern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis borealis (R) Roughtoothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis (R) Melonheaded whale, Peponocephala electra (R) What’s in Hawai′i??
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Cetacea Odonticeti Ziphiidae Blainville’s beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris (U/R) Carnivora Pinnipedia Phocidae Hawaiian monk seal, Monachus schauinslandi (U) Otariidae California sea lion, Zalophus californianus (R) Northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus (R)
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