Atlantic spotted dolphin
Stenella frontalis
Meet the cetaceans
Whales and dolphins of Madeira
Explore the species recorded in the waters around the Madeira archipelago.
Blainville's beaked whale
Mesoplodon densirostris
Blue whale
Balaenoptera musculus
Bryde's whale
Balaenoptera edeni
Common bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus
Common minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Cuvier's beaked whale
Ziphius cavirostris
Dwarf sperm whale
Kogia sima
False killer whale
Pseudorca crassidens
Fin whale
Balaenoptera physalus
Fraser's dolphin
Lagenodelphis hosei
Gervais' beaked whale
Mesoplodon europaeus
Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae
Killer whale
Orcinus orca
Northern Atlantic right whale
Eubalaena glacialis
Pygmy killer whale
Feresa attenuata
Pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps
Risso's dolphin
Grampus griseus
Rough-toothed dolphin
Steno bredanensis
Sei whale
Balaenoptera borealis
Short-beaked common dolphin
Delphinus delphis
Short-finned pilot whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Sowerby's beaked whale
Mesoplodon bidens
Sperm whale
Physeter macrocephalus
Striped dolphin
Stenella coeruleoalba