Cetacea species

Below all organisms belonging to the Cetacea group are listed. The official designations are assigned by the Comparative MHC Nomenclature Committee as established by the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) who are affiliated to the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) - Veterinary Immunology Committee (VIC). Organism four-letters codes are written in parentheses.

If you are working on MHC nomenclature and your species is not represented, please contact the Comparitive MHC Nomenclature Committee.

Species Common Name Class I Class II
Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Baac,Baac) Common minke whale N, S DRA, DRB1
Balaenoptera edeni (Baed,Baed) Eden's whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Balaenoptera musculus (Bamu) Blue whale N, S DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda (Bamubr,Bamu) Pygmy blue whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Balaenoptera ricei (Bari,Bari) Rice's whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Cephalorhynchus hectori (Cehe,Cehe) Hector's dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Delphinus delphis (Dede,Dede) Short-beaked common dolphin Meeu-DRB-a, N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Delphinapterus leucas (Dele,Dele) Beluga N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Eschrichtius robustus (Esro,Esro) Gray whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Eubalaena australis (Euau,Euau) Southern right whale Meeu-DRB-a, N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Eubalaena glacialis (Eugl,Eugl) North Atlantic right whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Globicephala melas (Glme,Glme) Long-finned pilot whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Grampus griseus (Grgr,Grgr) Risso's dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Hyperoodon ampullatus (Hyam,Hyam) Northern bottlenose dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Inia geoffrensis (Inge,Inge) Amazon river dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Kogia breviceps (Kobr,Kobr) Pygmy sperm whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Kogia sima (Kosi,Kosi) Dwarf sperm whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Laal,Laal) White-beaked dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Laob,Laob) Dusky dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Lipotes vexillifer (Live,Live) Baiji N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Mesoplodon densirostris (Mede,Mede) Blainville's beaked whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Mesoplodon europaeus (Meeu,Meeu) Gervais' beaked whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Mesoplodon grayi (Megr,Megr) Gray's beaked whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Megaptera novaeangliae (Meno) Humpback whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Monodon monoceros (Momo,Momo) Narwhal N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Neophocaena asiaeorientalis (Neas,Neas) Yangtze finless porpoise N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Orcinus orca (Oror,Oror) Killer whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Phocoena phocoena (Phph,Phph) Harbor porpoise N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Phocoena sinus (Phsi) Vaquita N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Steno bredanensis (Stbr,Stbr) Rough-toothed dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Stenella coeruleoalba (Stco,Stco) Striped dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB1
Tursiops truncatus (Tutr) Common bottlenose dolphin N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1
Ziphius cavirostris (Zica,Zica) Cuvier's beaked whale N DQA, DQB, DRA, DRB-a, DRB1