List of Australian marine mammals
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This is a list of Australian marine mammals.
[edit] Order Cetacea
Balenidae
- Eubalaena australis, Southern Right Whale
Balenopteridae
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Minke Whale
- Balaenoptera bonaerensis, Southern Minke Whale
- Balaenoptera borealis, Sei Whale
- Balaenoptera edeni, Pygmy Bryde's Whale
- Balaenoptera musculus, Blue Whale
- Balaenoptera physalus, Fin Whale
- Megaptera novaeangliae, Humpback Whale
Neobalaenidae
- Caperea marginata, Pygmy Right Whale
Delphinidae
- Delphinus delphis, Short-beaked Common Dolphin
- Feresa attenuata, Pygmy Killer Whale
- Globicephala macrorhynchus, Short-finned Pilot Whale
- Globicephala melas, Long-finned Pilot Whale
- Grampus griseus, Risso's Dolphin
- Lagenodelphis hosei, Fraser's Dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus cruciger, Hourglass Dolphin
- Lagenorhynchus obscurus, Dusky Dolphin
- Lissodelphis peronii, Southern Rightwhale Dolphin
- Orcaella brevirostris, Irrawaddy Dolphin
- Orcaella heinsohni, Australian Snubfin Dolphin
- Orcinus orca, Orca (Killer Whale)
- Peponocephala electra, Melon-headed Whale
- Pseudorca crassidens, False Killer Whale
- Sousa chinensis, Indo-Pacific Hump-backed Dolphin
- Stenella attenuata, Pantropical Spotted Dolphin
- Stenella coeruleoalba, Striped Dolphin
- Stenella longirostris, Spinner Dolphin
- Steno bredanensis, Rough-toothed Dolphin
- Tursiops aduncus, Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
- Tursiops truncatus, Bottlenose Dolphin
Kogiidae
- Kogia breviceps, Pygmy Sperm Whale
- Kogia simus, Dwarf Sperm Whale
Phocoenidae
- Phocoena dioptrica, Spectacled Porpoise
Physeteridae
- Physeter macrocephalus, Sperm Whale
Ziphiidae
- Berardius arnuxii, Arnoux's Beaked Whale
- Hyperoodon planifrons, Southern Bottlenose Whale
- Indopacetus pacificus, Longman's Beaked Whale
- Mesoplodon bowdoini, Andrew's Beaked Whale
- Mesoplodon densirostris, Blainville's Beaked Whale
- Mesoplodon ginkgodens, Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
- Mesoplodon grayi, Gray's Beaked Whale
- Mesoplodon hectori, Hector's Beaked Whale
- Mesoplodon layardii, Strap-toothed Whale
- Mesoplodon mirus, True's Beaked Whale
- Tasmacetus shepherdi, Shepherd's Beaked Whale
- Ziphius cavirostris, Cuvier's Beaked Whale
[edit] Order Sirenia
Dugongidae
- Dugong dugon, Dugong
[edit] Order Carnivora
Pinnipedia
Otariidae
- Arctocephalus forsteri, New Zealand Fur Seal
- Arctocephalus gazella, Antarctic Fur Seal
- Arctocephalus pusillus, Australian Fur Seal
- Arctocephalus tropicalis, Subantarctic Fur Seal
- Neophoca cinerea, Australian Sea Lion
- Phocarctos hookeri, New Zealand Sea Lion
Phocidae
- Hydrurga leptonyx, Leopard Seal
- Leptonychotes weddelli, Weddell Seal
- Lobodon carcinophagus, Crabeater Seal
- Mirounga leonina, Southern Elephant Seal
- Ommatophoca rossi, Ross Seal
