Cetacean species guide for Israel
Applies to species, individuals of which have either been sighted offshore or have beached in an apparently good nutritional status
Cetaceans of the Mediterranean continental shelf (presented in descending order of body size):
Sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus
Minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris
False killer whale Pseudorca crassidens
Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus
Common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncates
Rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin Sousa chinensis
Short-beaked Common dolphin Delphinus delphis
Striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Mediterranean Monk Seal Monachus monachus
Cetaceans of the Gulf of Eilat-Aqaba (absent from the Mediterranean):
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin Tursiops aduncus