Checklist of Species

By: A. H. Kopelman

Cetaceans, Pelagic Birds, Seals, and Sea Turtles

CETACEA
- Suborder Mysticeti. The baleen whales
  - Family Balaenidae. Right Whales
    - Eubalaena glacialis (Northern right whale)
  - Family Balaenopteridae. Rorquals
    - Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale)
    - Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale)
    - Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale)
    - Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale)
    - Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale)
- Suborder Odontoceti. The toothed whales
  - Family Delphinidae. Dolphins
    - Delphinus delphis (common dolphin)
    - Globicephala melas (long finned pilot whale)
    - Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin)
    - Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin)
    - Lagenorhynchus albirostris (white beaked dolphin)
    - Orcinus orca (killer whale)
    - Stenella attenuata (pantropical spotted dolphin)
    - Stenella coeruleoalba (striped dolphin)
    - Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphin)
- Family Kogiidae. Pygmy sperm whales
  - Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale)
- Family Monodontidae. Beluga and narwhal
  - Delphinapterus leucas (beluga whale)
- Family Phocoenidae. Porpoises
  - Phocoena phocoena (harbor porpoise)
- Family Physeteridae. Sperm whale
  - Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale)
- Family Ziphiidae. Beaked whales
  - Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)
  - Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby's beaked whales)
  - Mesoplodon mirus (True's beaked whale)

PELAGIC BIRDS
- Family Diomedeidae
  - Diomedea chlororhyncos (Yellow-nosed Albatross)
- Family Laridae
  - Chroicophalus philadelphia (Bonaparte’s Gull)
  - Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian Tern)
  - Larus argentatus (Herring Gull)
  - Larus delawarensis (Ring-billed Gull)
  - Larus hyperboreus (Glaucus Gull)
  - Larus marinus (Greater Black-backed Gull)
  - Leucophaeus atricilla (Laughing Gull)
  - Stercorarius parasiticus (Parasitic Jaeger)
  - Stercorarius pomarinus (Pomarine Jaeger)
  - Sterna dougallii (Roseate Tern)
  - Sterna hirundo (Common Tern)
  - Sterna paradisaea (Arctic Tern)
  - Thalasseus maximus (Royal Tern)
- Family Hydrobatidae
  - Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson’s Storm Petrel)
  - Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach’s Storm Petrel)
- Family Phalacrocoracidae
  - Phalacrocorax auritus (Double-crested Cormorant)
  - Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)
- Family Phalaropodidae
  - Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson’s Phalarope)
  - Phalaropus lobatus (Red-necked Phalarope)
- Family Procellariidae
  - Calonectris borealis (Cory’s Shearwater)
  - Calonectris diomedea (Scopoli’s Shearwater)
  - Fulmarus glacialis (Northern Fulmar)
  - Ardenna gravis (Great Shearwater)
  - Ardenna grisea (Sooty Shearwater)
  - Puffinus lherminieri (Audubon’s Shearwater)
  - Puffinus puffinus (Manx Shearwater)
- Family Sulidae
  - Sula bassana (Northern Gannet)

PINNIPEDIA
- Family Phocidae (true seals)
  - Cystophora cristata (hooded seal)
  - Halichoerus grypus (grey seal)
  - Pagophilus groenlandicus (harp seal)
  - Phoca hispida (ringed seal)
  - Phoca vitulina (harbor seal)

SEA TURTLES
- Family Cheloniidae
  - Chelonia mydas (Green Turtle)
  - Caretta caretta (Loggerhead)
  - Lepidochelys kempi (Kemp's Ridley)
- Family Dermochelyidae
  - Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle)