TY - GEN
TI - Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary: Marine Mammals List
AU - National Marine Sanctuaries
AB - Twenty nine species of marine mammals reside in or migrate through Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Toothed and baleen whales, seals and sea lions and sea otters all represent the adaptation of land-based animal forms for survival in the marine environment. Gray whales, sea otters, harbor seals and Steller and California sea lions can be spotted from land at many locations along the coast at some time during the year. Other whales including humpback whales can only be seen from boats as they feed miles offshore.GroupCommon NameSpeciesOccurrenceCarnivore1 SpeciesSea OtterEnhydra lutrisRegularPinnipeds5 speciesCalifornia sea lionZalophus californianusRegularNorthern Sea lionEumpetopias jubatusRegularNorthern fur sealCallorhinus ursinusRegularPacific harbor sealPhoca vitulinaRegularNorthern elephant sealMirounga angustirostrisRegularCetaceans23 speciesCalifornia gray whaleEschrichtius robustusRegularNorthern right whaleEubalaena glacialisRareMinke whaleBalaenoptera acutorostrataRegularFin whaleBalaenoptera physalusRareSei WhaleBalaenoptera borealisRareBlue whaleBalaenoptera musculusRareHumpback whaleMegaptera novaeangliaeRegularSperm whalePhyseter macrocephalusRarePygmy sperm whaleKogia brevicepsRareStejneger's beaked whaleMesoplodon stejnegeriRareHubb's beaked whaleMesoplodon carlhubbsiRareCuvier's beaked whaleZiphius cavirostrisRareBaird's beaked whaleBeradius bairdiiRareShort-finned pilot whaleGlobicephala macrorhynchusRareRisso's dolphinGrampus griseusRegluarKiller WhaleOrcinus orcaRegularFalse Killer whalePseudorca crassidensRareCommon dolphinDelpinus delphis RareNorthern right whale dolphinLissodelphis borealisRegularStriped dolphinStenella coeruleoalbaRarePacific white-sided dolphinLagenorhynchus obliquidensRegularDall's porpoisePhocoenoides dalliRegularHarbor porpoisePhocoenoides phocoenaRegular
DA - 2004/07//
PY - 2004
PB - National Marine Sanctuaries
UR - http://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/living/marinelife/mammals/mammals.html
LA - English
KW - Marine Mammals
KW - Cetaceans
KW - Pinnipeds
ER -