North Pacific Ocean animal life January 3, 2017 Some of the animals who live in the North Pacific Ocean include: Pacific White-Sided Dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) Pacific white-sided dolphins have a robust body and a very short beak. They have an unusually large, curved dorsal fin False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens) False killer whales are large members of the dolphin family. Females reach lengths of 15 feet (4.5 m), while males are almost Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae Genus: Sousa Species: chinensis TOOTHED or TOOTHLESS (BALEEN): Toothed FRESHWATER, Short-Beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) Short-beaked common dolphins are small dolphins under 9 feet (2.7 m) long and weigh about 440 pounds (200 kg). As adults, males Ribbon Seal (Phoca fasciata) The ribbon seal is one of nine species of ice seals inhabiting the Arctic and is the only species in Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis) Sei whales (pronounced "say" or "sigh") are members of the baleen whale family and are considered one of the "great Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) Subspecies of the spinner dolphin include: Eastern spinner (Stenella longirostris orientalis) Central American spinner (Stenella longirostris centroamericanus) "Whitebelly" spinner (Stenella Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) Bowhead whales are mysticetes, which means they have "baleen" plates instead of teeth for filtering food out of the ocean. Guadalupe Fur Seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) Guadalupe fur seals are members of the "eared seal" family, Otariidae. Guadalupe fur seals are sexually"dimorphic" with males reaching average Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are the largest of the odontocetes (toothed whales) and the most sexually dimorphic cetaceans, with males 1 2 3 … 5 Next » -TSF- aquatic zonesNorth Pacific Ocean
