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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 1992' 
Common Name 
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 monk seal 
Mediterranean monk seal 
Guadalupe fur seal 
Steller sea lion 
Scientific Name 
Trichechus manatus 
Trichechus inunguis 
Trichechus senegalensis 
Dugong dugon 
Lutra felina 
Enhydra lutris nereis 
Monachus schauinslandi 
Monachus tropicalis 
Monachus monachus 
Arctocephalus townsendi 
Eumetopias jubatus 
Whales, Porpoises, and River Dolphins 
Chinese river dolphin 
Indus river dolphin 
Vaquita 
Northern right whale 
Southern right whale 
Bowhead whale 
Humpback whale 
Gray whale” 
Blue whale 
Finback or fin whale 
Sei whale 
Sperm whale 
Lipotes vexillifer 
Platanista minor 
Phocoena sinus 
Eubalaena glacialis 
Eubalaena australis 
Balaena mysticetus 
Megaptera novaeangliae 
Eschrichtius robustus 
Balaenoptera musculus 
Balaenoptera physalus 
Balaenoptera borealis 
Physeter catodon 
Status Range 
1 From Fish and Wildlife Service Regulations at 50 C.F.R. § 17.11 
2 On 30 December 1992, the National Marine Fisheries Service declared that the "California" or "eastern" stock of gray whales had fully 
recovered and, effective 7 January 1993, would be removed from the list of endangered species. The westem North Pacific stock of gray 
whales will remain listed as endangered. 
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Eastern North, Central, and South America 
coasts and rivers from southeast United States to 
Brazil, including Puerto Rico and other Greater 
Antilles Islands 
Amazon River basin of South America 
West Africa coasts and rivers; Senegal to Angola 
Northern rim of Indian Ocean from Madagascar 
to Indonesia; 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 south- 
ern California 
North Pacific Rim from northern Japan to south- 
ern California 
Changjiang (Yangtze) River, China 
Indus River and tributaries, Pakistan 
Northern and central Gulf of California, Mexico 
North Atlantic Ocean; North Pacific Ocean; 
Bering Sea 
South Atlantic, South Pacific, Indian, and South- 
ern Oceans 
Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas 
Oceanic, all oceans 
Eastern and western North Pacific; Bering Sea 
Oceanic, all oceans 
Oceanic, all oceans 
Oceanic, all oceans 
Oceanic, all oceans 
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