This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Gibraltar. There are twenty-four mammal species in Gibraltar, of which one is critically endangered, one is endangered, three are vulnerable, and one is near threatened.
The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Order: Primates (monkeys, lemur-relatives, lemurs and apes)
Order: Carnivora (carnivores)
Infraorder (Order: Artiodactyla): Cetacea (dolphins and whales)
- Suborder: Mysticeti
- Family: Balaenopteridae (rorquals)
- Genus: Balaenoptera
- Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
- Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
- Suborder: Odontoceti
- Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales)
- Genus: Physeter
- Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus
- Family: Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
- Genus: Ziphius
- Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris
- Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins)
- Genus: Tursiops
- Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
- Genus: Steno
- Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno bredanensis
- Genus: Stenella
- Striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba
- Genus: Delphinus
- Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis
- Genus: Grampus
- Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
- Genus: Globicephala
- Long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas
- Genus: Orcinus
- Orca, Orcinus orca
Order: Rodentia (rodents)
Order: Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares)
Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans.
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