MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION — Annual Report for 1991 



Table 1. Marine Mammal Species and Populations Listed as Endangered (E) or Threatened (T) 

 under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as of 31 December 1991* 



Common Name 



Scientific Name 



Status 



Range 



Manatees and Dugongs 



West Indian manatee 



Amazonian manatee 

 West African manatee 

 Dugong 



Otters 



Marine otter 

 Southern sea otter 



Seals and Sea Lions 



Hawaiian monk seal 

 Caribbean monic seal 

 Mediterranean monk seal 



Guadalupe fur seal 



Steller sea lion 



Whales and Porpoises 



Gulf of California 

 harbor porpoise 

 Northern right whale 



Trichechus manatus 



Trichechus inunguis E 



Trichechus senegalensis T 

 Dugong dugon E 



Lutrafelina E 



Enhydra lutris nereis T 



Monachus schauinslandi E 



Monachus tropicalis E 



Monachus monachus E 



Arctocephalus townsendi T 



Ewnetopias jubatus T 



Phocoena sinus 

 Eubalaena glacialis 



Southern right whale Eubalaena australis 



Bowhead whale 

 Humpback whale 

 Gray whale 

 Blue whale 

 Finback or fin whale 

 Sei whale 

 Sperm whale 



Balaena mysticetus 

 Megaptera novaeangliae 

 Eschrichtius robustus 

 Balaenoptera musculus 

 Balaenoptera phy solus 

 Balaenoptera borealis 

 Physeter catodon 



E 

 E 



E 

 E 

 E 

 E 

 E 

 E 

 E 



Eastern North, Central and South America coast 

 and rivers from southeast United States to Bra- 

 zil, including Puerto Rico and other Greater 

 Antilles Islands 



Amazon River basin of South America 

 West Africa coast and rivers; Senegal to Angola 

 Northern rim of Indian Ocean; Indonesia; Philip- 

 pines; Malagasy; Australia; southern China; 

 Palau 



Western South America; Peru to southern Chile 

 Central California coast 



Hawaiian Archipelago 

 Caribbean Sea and Bahamas 

 Mediterranean Sea; Atlantic coast of northwest 

 Africa 



West coast of Baja California, Mexico, to south- 

 ern California 



North Pacific Rim from northern Japan to south- 

 em California 



Northern and central Gulf of California, Mexico 

 North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; 

 Bering Sea 



South Atlantic, South Pacific, Indian, and South- 

 em Oceans 



Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas 

 Oceanic, all oceans 



Eastem and western North Pacific; Bering Sea 

 Oceanic, all oceans 

 Oceanic, all oceans 

 Oceanic, all oceans 

 Oceanic, all oceans 



From Fish and Wildlife Service Regulations at 50 C.F./?. § 17.11 



