Sub-order ARCHAEOCETI (extinct)
Family Protocetidae
Family Basilosauridae

 
Sub-order ODONTOCETI (the toothed whales)

 
Super-Faimly SQUALODONTOIDEA (extinct)
Family Agorophiidae
Family Squalodontidea
Family Rhabdosteridae
Family Squalodelphidae

 
Super-Family PLATANISTOIDEA
Family Acrodelphidae (extinct)
Family Platanistidae
Platanista minor  Indus susu
Platanista gangetica  Ganges susu
Family Pontoporide
Pontoporia blainvillei  franciscana
Family Iniidae
Inia geoffrensis  boutu
Family Lipotidae
Lipotes vexillifer  baiji

 
Super-Family DELPHINOIDEA
Family Ketridontidae (extinct)
Family Albireonidea (extinct)
Family Monodontidae
Orcaella brevirostris  Irrawaddy dolphin
Delphinapterus leucas  beluga
Monodon monocerus  narwhal
Family Phocoenidae
Australophoecaena dioptrica  spectacled porpoise
Phocoenoides dalli  Dall's porpoise
Phocoena phocoena  harbour porpoise
Phocoena sinus  cochito
Phocoena spinipinnis  Burmeister's porpoise
Neophocaena phocaenoides  finless porpoise

 
Family Delphinidae
Steno bredanensis  rough-toothed dolphin
Sotalia fluviatilis  tucuxi
Sousa chinensis  Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin
Sousa teuszii  Atlantic humpbacked dolphin
Lagenorhynchus albirostris  white-beaked dolphin
Lagenorhynchus acutus  Atlantic white-sided dolphin
Lagenorhynchus obscurus  dusky dolphin
Lagenorhynchus obliquidents  Pacific white-sided dolphin
Lagenorhynchus cruciger  hourglass dolphin
Lagenorhynchus australis  Peale's dolphin
Lagenodelphis hosei  Fraser's dolphin
Delphinus delphis  common dolphin
Tursiops truncatus  bottlenose dolphin
Stenella species
(including S. attenuata, S. plagiodon, 
S. frontalis, S. dubia)		  spotted dolphin
Stenella coeruleoalba  striped dolphin
Stenella longirostris  long-snouted spinner dolphin
Stenella clymene  short-snouted spinner dolphin
Lissodelphis peronii  southern right whale dolphin
Lissodelphis borealis  northern right whale dolphin
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii  Heaviside's dolphin
Cephalorhynchus hectori  Hector's dolphin
Cephalorhynchus eutropia  black dolphin
Cephalorhynchus commersonii  Commerson's dolphin
Peponocephala electra  electra dolphin,or melon-headed whale
Feresa attenuata  pygmy killer whale
Pseudorca crassidens  false killer whale
Orcinus orca  killer whale
Grampus griseus  Risso's dolphin
Globicephala melaena  long-finned pilot whale
Globicephala macrorhynchus  short-finned pilot whale

 
Super-Family ZIPHIOIDEA
Family Ziphiidae
Berardius bairdii  Baird's beaked whale
Berardius arnuxii  Arnoux's beaked whale
Hyperoodon ampullatus  northern bottlenose whale
Hyperoodon planifrons  southern bottlenose whale
Ziphius cavirostris  Cuvier's beaked whale
Tasmacetus sheperdi  Tasman beaked whale
Mesoplodon densirostris  Blainville's beaked whale
Mesoplodon bidens  Sowerby's beaked whale
Mesoplodon eurpaeus  Gervais' beaked whale
Mesoplodon mirus  True's beaked whale
Mesoplodon layardii  strap-toothed whale
Mesoplodon grayi  Gray's beaked whale
Mesoplodon bowdoini  Andrews's beaked whale
Mesoplodon pacificus  longman's beaked whale
Mesonlodon hectori   Hector's beaked whale
Mesoplodon ginkgodens  ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
Mesoplodon stejnegeri  Stejneger's beaked whale
Mesoplodon carlhubsi  Hubbs's beaked whale

 
Family Kogiidae
Kogia breviceps  pygmy sperm whale
Kogia simus  dwarf sperm whale

 
Family Physeteridae
Physeter catodon sperm whale
　
 
Sub-order MYSTICETI (the whalebone whales)

 
Family Cetotheridae (extinct)
Family Aetiocetidae (extinct)

 
Family Balaenidae
Balaena mysticetus  Greenland right whale or 
 bowhead whale
Balaena glacialis  black right whale

 
Family Neobalaenidae
Caperea marginata  pygmy right whale
Family Eschrictiidae
Eschrictius robustus  grey whale
Family Balaenopteridae
Megaptera novaeangliae  Humpback Whale
Balaenoptera musculus  blue whale
Balaenoptera physalus  fin whale
Balaenoptera borealis  sei whale
Balaenoptera edeni  Bryde's whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata  minke whale