MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION - Annual Report for 1995 



Table 1. Marine mammal species and populations listed as endangered (E) or threatened (T) under 

 the Endangered Species Act and depleted (D) under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as 

 of 31 December 1995 1 



Common Name 

 Manatees and Dugongs 



West Indian manatee 



Scientific Name 



Trichechus manatus 



Status Range 



E/D 



Guadalupe fur seal 



Arctocephalus townsendi T/D 



Eastern North, Central, and South America coasts 

 and rivers from southeast United States to Brazil; 

 Puerto Rico and other Greater Antilles Islands 

 Amazon River basin of South America 

 West Africa coasts and rivers; Senegal to Angola 

 Northern Indian Ocean from Madagascar to Indo- 

 nesia; Philippines; Australia; southern China; Palau 



Western South America; Peru to southern Chile 

 Central California coast 



Hawaiian Archipelago 



Caribbean Sea and Bahamas (probably extinct) 



Mediterranean Sea; Atlantic coast of northwest 



Africa 



West coast of Baja California, Mexico, to southern 



California 



North Pacific Rim from California to Japan 



North Pacific Rim from Japan to California 



Lake Saimaa, Finland 



Changjiang (Yangtze) River, China 

 Indus River and tributaries, Pakistan 

 Northern Gulf of California, Mexico 

 Eastern tropical Pacific Ocean 



Eastern tropical Pacific Ocean 



Atlantic coastal waters from New York to Florida 



North Atlantic, North Pacific Oceans; Bering Sea 



South Atlantic, South Pacific, Indian, and Southern 



Oceans 



Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas 



Oceanic, all oceans 



Oceanic, all oceans 



Oceanic, all oceans 



Oceanic, all oceans 



Oceanic, all oceans 



From Fish and Wildlife Service Regulations at 50 C.F.R. § 17.1 1 and National Marine Fisheries Service Regulations at §216.15. 



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