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Wildlife of Virginia Beach

The Virginia Beach is home to many non-aquatic, aquatic, and semi-aquatic species. Here is a guide to them all.

Gervais' Beaked Whale 1
Mesoplodon europaeus
True's Beaked Whale 2
Mesoplodon mirus
Common Porpoise 3
Phocoena phocoena
Pygmy Sperm Whale 4
Kogia breviceps
Gray Whale 5
Eschrichtius robustus
Common Bottlenose Dolphin 6
Tursiops truncatus
Striped Dolphin 7
Stenella coeruleoalba
Clymene Dolphin 8
Stenella clymene
Spinner Dolphin 9
Stenella longirostris
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin 10
Stenella attenuata
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin 11
Stenella frontalis
Orca 12
Orcinus orca
Short-beaked Common Dolphin 13
Delphinus delphis
Long-finned Pilot Whale 14
Globicephala melas
Short-finned Pilot Whale 15
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Risso's Dolphin 16
Grampus griseus
Blue Whale 17
Balaenoptera musculus
Eden's Whale 18
Balaenoptera edeni
Sei Whale 19
Balaenoptera borealis
Fin Whale 20
Balaenoptera physalus
Humpback Whale 21
Megaptera novaeangliae
North Atlantic Right Whale 22
Eubalaena glacialis

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  • 1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Mammals, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 2. (c) Figure 8 from article: Aguilar de Soto N, Martín V, Silva M, Edler R, Reyes C, Carrillo M, Schiavi A, Morales T, García-Ovide B, Sanchez-Mora A, Garcia-Tavero N, Steiner L, Scheer M, Gockel R, Walker D, Villa E, Szlama P, Eriksson IK, Tejedor M, Perez-Gil, some rights reserved (CC BY)
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