Classificação da Ordem Cetácea

Sub-ordem ODONTOCETI:     Super-Familia Platanistoide:        Familia Platanistidae:              -Platanista gangetica              -Platanista minor
Familia Pontoporiidae:           Sub-Familia Lipontinae:              -Lipotes vexillifer           Sub-Familia Pontoporiinae:              -Pontoporia blainvillei
Familia Iniiae:              -Inia geoffrensis
Super-Familia Delphinoidea:       Familia Monodontidae:           Sub-Familia Delphinapterinae:                -Dephinapterus leucas           Sub-Familia Monodontinae:                -Monodon monoceros
Familia Phocoenidae:           Sub-Familia Phocoeninae:               -Phocoena phocoena               -Phocoena spinipinnis               -Phocoena sinus               -Neophocaena phocaenoides           Sub-Familia Phoceonoidinae:               -Australophocaena dioptrica               -Phocoenoides dalli
Familia Delphinidae:           Sub-Familia Steninae:                -Steno bredanensis                -Sousa chinensis                -Sousa teuszii                -Sotalia fluviatilis           Sub-Familia Delphininae:                -Langenorchynchus albirostris                -Langenorchynchus acutus                -Langenorchynchus obscurus                -Langenorchynchus obliquidens                -Langenorchynchus cruciger                -Langenorchynchus australis                -Grampus griseus                -Tursiops truncatus                -Stenella frontalis                -Stenella attenuata                -Stenella longirostris                -Stenella clymene                -stenella coeruleoalba                -Delphinus delphis                -Lagenodelphis hosei           Sub-Familia Lissodelphinae:                -Lissodelphis borealis                -Lissodelphis peronii           Sub-Familia Orcaellinae:                -Orcaella brevirostris           Sub-Familia Cephalorchynchinae:                 -Cephalorchynchus commersonii                 -Cephalorchynchus eutropia                 -Cephalorchynchus headvisidii                 -Cephalorchynchus hectori           Sub-Familia Globicephalinae:                 -Peponocephala electra                 -Feresa attenuata                 -Pseudorca crassidens                 -Orcinus orca                 -Globicephala melas                 -Globicephala macrorhynchus
Super-Familia Ziphinoidea: Familia Ziphinoidae:                 -Tasmaetus shepherdi                 -Berardius bairdii                 -Berardius arnuxii                 -Mesoplodon pacificus                 -Mesoplodon bidens                 -Mesoplodon densirostris                 -Mesoplodon europaeus                 -Mesoplodon layardii                 -Mesoplodon hectori                 -Mesoplodon grayi                 -Mesoplodon stejnegeri                 -Mesoplodon bowdoini                 -Mesoplodon mirus                 -Mesoplodon ginkgodens                 -Mesoplodon carlhubbsi                 -Ziphius cavirostris                 -Hyperoodon ampullatus                 -Hyperoodon planifrons
Super-Familia Physeteroidea: Familia Physeteridae:   Sub-Familia Physeterinae:         -Physeter macrocephalus
Familia Koiidae:                 -Kogia breviceps                 -Kogia simus
Sub-ordem MYSTICETI: Familia Balaenidae:          -Balaena mysticetus          -Eubalaena australis          -Eubalaena galcialis
Familia Neobalaenidae:                 -Caperea marginata
Familia Eschrichtiidae:                 -Eschrichtius robustus
Familia Balaenopteridae:         Sub-Familia Balaenopterinae:                 -Balaenoptera acutorostrata                 -Balaenoptera borealis                 -Balaenoptera edeni                 -Balaenoptera musculus                 -Balaenoptera physalus         Sub-Familia Megapterinae:                 -Megatpera novaengliae