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Flora and Fauna of North Carolina

A guide to the species that call North Carolina home!

Gervais' Beaked Whale 1
Mesoplodon europaeus
Blainville's Beaked Whale 2
Mesoplodon densirostris
True's Beaked Whale 1
Mesoplodon mirus
Cuvier's Beaked Whale 3
Ziphius cavirostris
Common Porpoise 4
Phocoena phocoena
Pygmy Sperm Whale 5
Kogia breviceps
Dwarf Sperm Whale
Kogia sima
Gray Whale 6
Eschrichtius robustus
Bottlenose Dolphin 7
Tursiops truncatus
Striped Dolphin 8
Stenella coeruleoalba
Clymene Dolphin 1
Stenella clymene
Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin 1
Stenella attenuata
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin 9
Stenella frontalis
Killer Whale 10
Orcinus orca
Common Dolphin 9
Delphinus delphis
Long-finned Pilot Whale 11
Globicephala melas
Short-finned Pilot Whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Pygmy Killer Whale 1
Feresa attenuata
False Killer Whale 12
Pseudorca crassidens
Risso's Dolphin 9
Grampus griseus
Melon-headed Whale 13
Peponocephala electra
Rough-toothed Dolphin
Steno bredanensis
Minke Whale 14
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Blue Whale 1
Balaenoptera musculus
Eden's Whale 1
Balaenoptera edeni
Sei Whale 1
Balaenoptera borealis
Fin Whale 15
Balaenoptera physalus
Humpback Whale 16
Megaptera novaeangliae
North Atlantic Right Whale 17
Eubalaena glacialis
Sperm Whale 18
Physeter macrocephalus

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