Non-resident cetacean species

Scientific Name	Common Name	Year of Occurance	Total record
Megaptera novaeangliae	Humpback Whale	2009 ^(3b)	1
Balaenoptera edeni	Bryde's Whale	1992 ⁽¹⁾, 1994 ⁽¹⁾, 2005 ⁽¹⁾, 2021 ^(3b), 2023 ^(3a)	5
Balaenoptera omurai	Omura's Whale	2014 ⁽¹⁾	1
Physeter macrocephalus	Sperm Whale	2003 ^(2a)	1
Kogia breviceps	Pygmy Sperm Whale	1986 ^(2a) x 2, 1992 ⁽¹⁾, 2003 ⁽¹⁾, 2014 ⁽¹⁾, 2017 ⁽¹⁾, 2021 ⁽¹⁾	7
Kogia sima	Dwarf Sperm Whale	1991 ⁽¹⁾, 2016 ⁽¹⁾, 2023 ^(3b)*	3
Pseudorca crassidens	False Killer Whale	1983-2000 ⁽¹⁾ x 4, 1996 ^(3b), 2002 ^(2a), 2005 ⁽¹⁾, 2014 ^(3b), 2017 ⁽¹⁾, 2020 ^(3b), 2020 ⁽¹⁾	11
Globicephala macrorhynchus	Short-finned Pilot Whale	2015 ^(3a)	1
Steno bredanensis	Rough-toothed Dolphin	2003 ⁽¹⁾, 2004 ^(2a), 2009 ⁽¹⁾	3
Grampus griseus	Risso's Dolphin	1986 ⁽¹⁾, 1986 ^(2b), 1988 ⁽¹⁾, 2005 ⁽¹⁾, 2010 ^(3b)	5
Tursiops truncatus	Common Bottlenose Dolphin	1980-2003 ⁽¹⁾ x 8, 1983 ^(2a), 1985 ^(2a), 2008 ⁽¹⁾ x 2, 2011 ⁽¹⁾, 2017 ⁽¹⁾	14
Tursiops aduncus	Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin	2004 ⁽¹⁾, 2014 ⁽¹⁾, 2018 ⁽¹⁾, 2020 ⁽¹⁾, 2021 ⁽¹⁾ x 4, 2022 ⁽¹⁾	9
Delphinus delphis	Common Dolphin	1978 ^(3b), 1989 ⁽¹⁾, 1996 ^(3b), 1997 ⁽¹⁾, 2000 ⁽¹⁾, 2004 ⁽¹⁾, 2006 ^(3b), 2018 ⁽¹⁾, 2019 ⁽¹⁾, 2020 ⁽¹⁾	10
Stenella attenuata	Pantropical Spotted Dolphin	1996 ⁽¹⁾, 2000 ⁽¹⁾, 2016 ^(3b) x 2, 2016 ⁽¹⁾, 2017 ^(3b), 2018 ^(3b), 2018 ⁽¹⁾, 2019 ^(3b), 2020 ^(3b), 2021 ^(2a)	11
Stenella coeruleoalba	Striped Dolphin	1988 ⁽¹⁾, 1989 ⁽¹⁾, 1992 ⁽¹⁾, 1994 ⁽¹⁾, 1996 ⁽¹⁾, 2014 ⁽¹⁾, 2014 ^(3a), 2020 ⁽¹⁾ x2	9
Stenella longirostris	Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin	1995 ^(3b), 1997 ⁽¹⁾, 1999 ⁽¹⁾, 2020 ⁽¹⁾	4
Lagenodelphis hosei	Fraser's Dolphin	1995 ⁽¹⁾	1
Neophocaena asiaeorientalis	Narrow-ridged finless porpoise	2019 ⁽¹⁾ x 2	2

Remark:
⁽¹⁾ Carcass
^(2a) Live stranding on shore - rescue taken but died afterward
^(2b) Live stranding on shore - rescued and released on site
^(2c) Live stranding on shore - rescued, rehabilitated and released
^(3a) Live sighting - died in Hong Kong water afterward
^(3b) Live sighting - disappeared afterward
* species is either Pygmy Sperm Whale or Dwarf Sperm Whale

Non-resident cetacean species

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Total record