MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION - Annual Report for 1998 



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 1998' 



Common Name 

 Manatees and Dugongs 

 West Indian manatee 



Scientific Name 



Trichechus manatus 



Status Range 



E/D Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic from southeastern 

 United States to Brazil; and 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) 

 Meditenanean Sea; northwest African coast 

 Baja California, Mexico, to southern California 

 North Pacific Rim from California to Japan 

 North Pacific Rim from Japan to Prince William 



Sound, Alaska (east of 144°W longitude) 

 North Pacific Rim from Prince William Sound, 



Alaska, to California (east of 144°W longitude) 

 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 

 Western North Pacific Ocean 



gray whale 

 Sei whale 

 Sperm whale 



From Fish and Wildlife Service Regulations al 50 C.F.R. §17.11 and National Marine Fisheries Service Regulations at 50 C.F.R. §216.15. 



Balaenopiera borealis 

 Physeter macrocephalus 



E/D Oceanic, all oceans 

 E/D Oceanic, all oceans 



