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| Kingdom | Animalia | |
| Phylum | Chordata | |
| Class | Mammalia | |
| Order | Cetacea |
List of all species - see Taxon profile using the number
| Family Balaenidae | ||||
| Caperea marginata | (Gray,1846) | Pygmy Right Whale | ||
| Eubalaena australis | (Desmoulins,1822) | Southern Right Whale | ||
| Eubalaena marginata | Gray, 1846 | Pygmy Right Whale | ||
| Family Balaenopteridae | ||||
| Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Laciphde,1804 | Minke Whale | ||
| Balaenoptera bonaerensis | Burmeister, 1867 | Antarctic Minke Whale, Dark-shoulder Minke Whale | ||
| Balaenoptera borealis | Lesson,1828 | Sei Whale | ||
| Balaenoptera musculus | (Linnaeus,1758) | Blue Whale | ||
| Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda | (Linnaeus, 1758) | Pygmy Blue Whale | ||
| Balaenoptera physalus | Linnaeus,1758 | Fin Whale | ||
| Balaenoptera sp. | Unknown Baleen Whale | |||
| Megaptera novaeangliae | (Borowski,1781) | Humpback Whale | ||
| Family Delphinidae | ||||
| Cephalorhynchus commersonii | Lacepede, 1804 | Commerson's dolphin | ||
| Delphinidae sp. | Dolphin sp. | |||
| Globicephala macrorhynchus | Gray,1846 | Short-finned Pilot Whale | ||
| Globicephala melaena | (Traill, 1809) | Long-finned Pilot Whale | Synonym | |
| Globicephala melas | Traill,1809 | Long-finned Pilot Whale | ||
| Globicephala sp. | Unknown Pilot Whale | |||
| Lagenorhynchus cruciger | (Quoy and Gaimard,1824) | Hourglass Dolphin | ||
| Lagenorhynchus obliquidens | (Gill, 1865) | Pacific White-sided Dolphin | ||
| Lagenorhynchus obscurus | Gray,1828 | Dusky Dolphin | ||
| Lissodelphis peronii | (Laciphde,1804) | Southern Right Whale Dolphin | ||
| Orcinus orca | Linnaeus,1758 | Killer Whale | ||
| Tursiops sp. | Bottlenose Dolphin sp. | |||
| Tursiops truncatus | Montagu,1821 | Bottlenose Dolphin | ||
| Family Eschrichtiidae | ||||
| Eschrichtius robustus | (Lilljeborg, 1861) | Grey Whale | ||
| Family Phocoenidae | ||||
| Australophocoena dioptrica | (Lahille,1912) | Spectacled Dolphin | ||
| Phocaena dioptrica | Lahille,1912 | Spectacled Porpoise | Synonym | |
| Phocoena dioptrica | (Lahille,1912) | Spectacled Dolphin | Synonym | |
| Family Physeteridae | ||||
| Physeter macrocephalus | Linnaeus,1758 | Sperm Whale | ||
| Family Ziphiidae | ||||
| Berardius arnuxii | Duvernoy,1851 | Arnoux's Beaked Whale | ||
| Hyperoodon planifrons | Flower,1882 | Southern Bottlenose Whale | ||
| Mesoplodon layardii | (Gray,1865) | Strap-toothed Beaked Whale, Strap-toothed Whale, Layard's Beaked Whale | ||
| Mesoplodon sp. | Unknown Beaked whale | |||