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Cetacean update of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Sp./Subsp./Subpop. Common name Taxonomic level 2008 Status Balaena mysticetus Bowhead species Least Concern (LC) Balaena mysticetus Bering-Beaufort-Chukchi Sea Bering-Beaufort-Chukchi Sea subpopulation Lower Risk/conservation dependent (LR/cd) Balaena mysticetus Okhotsk Sea Okhotsk Sea bowhead whale subpopulation Endangered (EN) Balaena mysticetus Svaalbard-Barents Sea Svaalbard-Barents Sea bowhead whale subpopulation Critically Endangered (CR) acutorostrata Common species Least Concern (LC) Balaenoptera bonaerensis species Data Deficient (DD) Balaenoptera borealis species Endangered (EN) Balaenoptera edeni/brydei Bryde's whale complex species Data Deficient (DD) Balaenoptera musculus species Endangered (EN) Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda Pygmy blue whale subspecies Data Deficient (DD) Balaenoptera musculus intermedia Antarctic blue whale subspecies Critically Endangered (CR) Balaenoptera musculus musculus North Atlantic North Atlantic blue whale subpopulation Vulnerable (VU) Balaenoptera musculus musculus North Pacific North Pacific blue whale subpopulation Lower Risk/conservation dependent (LR/cd) Balaenoptera omurai Omura's whale species Data Deficient (DD) Balaenoptera physalus species Endangered (EN) arnuxii Arnoux' species Data Deficient (DD) Berardius bairdii Baird's beaked whale species Data Deficient (DD) Caperea marginata Pygmy species Data Deficient (DD) commersonii Commerson's species Data Deficient (DD) Cephalorhynchus eutropia species Near Threatened (NT) Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Heaviside's dolphin species Data Deficient (DD) Cephalorhynchus hectori Hector's dolphin species Endangered (EN) Cephalorhynchus hectori maui Maui's dolphin subspecies Critically Endangered (CR) Delphinapterus leucas species Near Threatened (NT) Delphinapterus leucas Cook Inlet Cook Inlet beluga whale subpopulation Critically Endangered (CR) Delphinus capensis Long-beaked species Data Deficient (DD) Delphinus delphis Short-beaked common dolphin species Least Concern (LC) Delphinus delphis ponticus Black Sea common dolphin subspecies Vulnerable (VU) Delphinus delphis Mediterranean Mediterranean common dolphin subpopulation Endangered (EN) Eschrichtius robustus species Least Concern (LC) Eschrichtius robustus Northwest Pacific Northwest Pacific gray whale subpopulation Critically Endangered (CR) Eubalaena australis species Least Concern (LC) Eubalaena australis Chile-Peru Chile-Peru right whale subpopulation Critically Endangered (CR) Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic right whale species Endangered (EN) Eubalaena japonica North Pacific right whale species Endangered (EN) Eubalaena japonica Northeast Pacific Northeast Pacific right whale subpopulation Critically Endangered (CR) Feresa attenuata Pygmy species Data Deficient (DD) Globicephala macrorhynchus Short-finned species Data Deficient (DD) Globicephala melas Long-finned pilot whale species Data Deficient (DD) Grampus griseus Risso's dolphin species Least Concern (LC) Hyperoodon ampullatus Northern species Data Deficient (DD) Hyperoodon planifrons Sothern bottlenose whale species Least Concern (LC) Indopacetus pacificus Tropical bottlenose whale species Data Deficient (DD) Inia geoffrensis species Data Deficient (DD)