Table 1 Number of occurrences of each recorded taxa.
From: A dataset of cetacean occurrences in the Eastern North Atlantic
Taxa | Taxon rank | Number of occurrences |
|---|---|---|
Elasmobranchii | Class | 25 |
Myliobatiformes | Order | 1 |
Cetacea | Infraorder | 270 |
Mysticeti | Superfamily | 279 |
Cheloniidae | Family | 173 |
Delphinidae | Family | 750 |
Istiophoridae | Family | 1 |
Myliobatidae | Family | 16 |
Sphyrnidae | Family | 11 |
Ziphiidae | Family | 121 |
Globicephala | Genus | 59 |
Kogia | Genus | 5 |
Morus | Genus | 2 |
Thunnus | Genus | 2 |
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Species | 92 |
Balaenoptera borealis | Species | 4 |
Balaenoptera edeni | Species | 6 |
Balaenoptera musculus | Species | 3 |
Balaenoptera physalus | Species | 33 |
Caretta caretta | Species | 108 |
Chelonia mydas | Species | 1 |
Delphinus delphis | Species | 394 |
Dermochelys coriacea | Species | 3 |
Grampus griseus | Species | 8 |
Hyperoodon ampullatus | Species | 4 |
Lagenodelphis hosei | Species | 1 |
Manta birostris | Species | 2 |
Megaptera novaeangliae | Species | 9 |
Mesoplodon densirostris | Species | 5 |
Mola mola | Species | 16 |
Monachus monachus | Species | 1 |
Orcinus orca | Species | 5 |
Peponocephala electra | Species | 4 |
Phocoena phocoena | Species | 4 |
Physeter macrocephalus | Species | 152 |
Pseudorca crassidens | Species | 13 |
Stenella attenuata | Species | 8 |
Stenella clymene | Species | 16 |
Stenella coeruleoalba | Species | 154 |
Stenella frontalis | Species | 226 |
Stenella longirostris | Species | 6 |
Steno bredanensis | Species | 4 |
Tursiops truncatus | Species | 134 |
Ziphius cavirostris | Species | 64 |
TOTAL | 44 taxa | 3195 occurrences |
