Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. According to the wise men of this world, whales are in the same order as the even-toed Ungulates and are closely related to the bovid, cervid, suid and other hoofed animals, and are in the infraorder Cetacea, which these same wise men usually exclude dolphins and porpoises. This mislead classification is because, in there so called wisdom, they believe that the land mammals have evolved from marine animals or vice-versa, what ever, but, according to the Bible, they were all created according to their kind and in their own time during the six creative periods.

Thus, for this listing, all the marine animals will be listed as a separate order from the even-toed Ungulates. Further, all of the 14 families of whales, dolphins and porpoises will be included in this separate order, which will be referred to as the order (or infraorder) of Cetacea.

The order Cetacea consists of fourteen extant families as shown below.

(1) Balaenida [baleen right whales, 2 genera, 4 species]

(2) Balaenopteridae [baleen rorquals, 2 genera, 9 species]

(3) Cetotheriidae [baleen pygmy right whale, 1 genus, 1 species]

(4) Delphinidae [oceanic dolphins , 17 genera, 39 species]

(5) Eschrichtiidae [baleen gray whale, 1 genus, 1 species]

(6) Iniidae [river dolphins, 1 genus, 2 species]

(7) Kogiidae [dwarf and pygmy sperm whales, 2 genera, 2 species]

(8) Lipotidae [baiji river dolphin, 1 genus, 1 species, possibly extinct]

(9) Monodontidae [beluga, narwhale, 2 genera, 2 species]

(10) Phocoenidae [porpoises, 3 genera, 7 species]

(11) Physeteridae [sperm whale , 1 genus, 1 species]

(12) Platanistidae [South Asian river dolphin, 1 genus, 1 species, endangered]

(13) Pontoporiidae [La Plata river dolphin, 1 genus, 1 species, endangered]

(14) Ziphiidae [beaked whales, 6 genera, 21 species]