Table 2.
Samples used in this study.
| Order | Suborder | Superfamily | Family | Scientific name | Common name | sampling location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cetacea | Odontoceti | Delphinoidea | Delphinidae | Tursiops aduncus | Indo-Pacific | Dongshan, Fujian |
| bottlenose dolphin | Province, China | |||||
| Tursiops truncatus | Common bottlenose | Polar and Oceanic | ||||
| dolphin | Park, Shandong | |||||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Delphinus capensis | Long-beaked | Leqing, Zhejiang | ||||
| common dolphin | Province, China | |||||
| Stenella coeruleoalba | Striped dolphin | Dongshan, Fujian | ||||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Stenella attenuata | Pantropical spotted | Dongshan, Fujian | ||||
| dolphin | Province, China | |||||
| Sousa chinensis | Indo-Pacific | Xiamen, Fujian | ||||
| humpbacked dolphin | Province, China | |||||
| Grampus griseus | Risso's dolphin | Dongshan, Fujian | ||||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Monodontidae | Delphinapterus leucas | Beluga, white whale | Polar and Oceanic | |||
| Park, Shandong | ||||||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Phocoenidae | Nephocaena phocaenoides | Finless porpoise | Nanjing, Jiangsu | |||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Lipotidea | Lipotidae | Lipotes vexillifer | Yangtze river | Jiangyin, Jiangsu | ||
| dolphin | Province, China | |||||
| Platanistoidea | Platanistidae | Platanista gangetica | South Asian river | |||
| dolphin | ||||||
| Ziphioidea | Ziphiidae | Mesoplodon ginkgodens | Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale | Lvsi, Jiangsu | ||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Physeteroidea | Kogiidae | Kogia sima | Dwarf sperm whale | Xiamen, Fujian | ||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Mysticeti | Balaenopteridae | Balaenoptera acutorostrata | Common minke whale | Zhoushan, Zhejiang | ||
| Province, China | ||||||
| Balaenoptera omurai | Omura's whale | Weizhou Iland, Bei hai, | ||||
| Guangxi Province, China | ||||||
| Artiodactyla | Hippopotamidae | Hippopotamus amphibius | Hippopotamus | Shanghai zoo, Shanghai | ||
| Province, China | ||||||