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There are fully marine mammals and sub-marine mammals, this is only the fully marine mammals (Sirenids and Cetaceans).

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There are only 3 manatee species and 1 dugong

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There are 96 species of whale, dolphin, beaked whale, and porpoise.

That makes a total of 100 species exactly, but there are still species to discover.

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There are currently 199,146 named species but there couldbe about 750,000 species.

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Seals, walrus, polar bear, whales and dolphins, sea otter, dugong, manatee.

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