Whales, dolphins and other mammals of India
45 whales, dolphins and other mammals are on the India list, 13 of them threatened (7 Endangered and 6 Vulnerable).
The India list: every species documented from India, across sources. Threatened: IUCN Red List Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable. The sources give no endemic mark for whales, dolphins and other mammals yet. List of the week of 2026-11-09.
Threatened whales, dolphins and other mammals of India (13)
- Balaenoptera borealis Sei Whale EN
- Balaenoptera musculus Blue Whale EN
- Neophocaena asiaeorientalis Yangtze Finless Porpoise EN
- Orcaella brevirostris Irrawaddy Dolphin EN
- Platanista gangetica Ganges River Dolphin EN
- Platanista minor Indus River Dolphin EN
- Sousa plumbea Indian Humpback Dolphin EN
- Balaenoptera physalus Fin Whale VU
- Dugong dugon Dugong VU
- Neophocaena phocaenoides Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise VU
- Physeter macrocephalus Sperm Whale VU
- Sousa chinensis Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin VU
- Tolypeutes tricinctus Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo VU
All whales, dolphins and other mammals of India on the list (45)
- Alionoctula ceylonica
- Alionoctula coromandra
- Alionoctula tenuis
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata Common Minke Whale
- Balaenoptera borealis Sei Whale EN
- Balaenoptera edeni Eden's Whale
- Balaenoptera musculus Blue Whale EN
- Balaenoptera omurai Omura's Whale DD
- Balaenoptera physalus Fin Whale VU
- Cynocephalus volans Philippine Colugo
- Dasypus novemcinctus Southern Long-nosed Armadillo
- Delphinus delphis Common Dolphin
- Domningia sodhae
- Dugong dugon Dugong VU
- Galeopterus variegatus Sunda Colugo
- Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-finned Pilot Whale
- Grampus griseus Risso's Dolphin
- Indopacetus pacificus Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale
- Kogia breviceps Pygmy Sperm Whale
- Kogia sima Dwarf Sperm Whale
- Lagenodelphis hosei Fraser's Dolphin
- Megaptera novaeangliae Humpback Whale
- Mesoplodon densirostris Dense-beaked Whale
- Neophocaena asiaeorientalis Yangtze Finless Porpoise EN
- Neophocaena phocaenoides Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise VU
- Orcaella brevirostris Irrawaddy Dolphin EN
- Orcinus orca Orca DD
- Parabrachyodus hyopotamoides
- Peponocephala electra Melon-headed Whale
- Physeter macrocephalus Sperm Whale VU
- Platanista gangetica Ganges River Dolphin EN
- Platanista minor Indus River Dolphin EN
- Procavia capensis Rock Hyrax
- Pseudorca crassidens False Killer Whale NT
- Sousa chinensis Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin VU
- Sousa plumbea Indian Humpback Dolphin EN
- Stenella attenuata Pantropical Spotted Dolphin
- Stenella coeruleoalba Striped Dolphin
- Stenella frontalis Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
- Stenella longirostris Spinner Dolphin
- Steno bredanensis Rough-toothed Dolphin
- Tolypeutes tricinctus Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo VU
- Tursiops aduncus Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin NT
- Tursiops truncatus Common Bottlenose Dolphin
- Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Whales, dolphins and other mammals elsewhere
Andaman and Nicobar · Andhra Pradesh · Assam · Bihar · Chhattisgarh · Delhi · Goa · Gujarat · Himachal Pradesh · Karnataka · Kerala · Lakshadweep · Madhya Pradesh · Maharashtra · Odisha · Puducherry · Rajasthan · Tamil Nadu · Telangana · Uttar Pradesh · West Bengal · Semi-Arid · Western Ghats · Deccan Peninsula · Gangetic Plain · Coasts · North-East · Islands
Other species of India
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