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Sea mammals that start with S
The full list of sea mammals starting with S: 23 names, taken from the 141 answers to “Name a mammal that lives in the sea” in Icillion.
Sea mammals starting with S
- Sato's beaked whale
- Sea lion
- Sea otter
- Seal
- Sei whale
- Shepherd's beaked whalealso Tasman beaked whale
- Short-finned pilot whale
- South American fur seal
- South American sea lionalso Southern sea lion
- Southern bottlenose whale
- Southern elephant seal
- Southern right whale
- Southern right whale dolphin
- Sowerby's beaked whale
- Spectacled porpoise
- Sperm whalealso Cachalot
- Spinner dolphin
- Spotted sealalso Largha seal
- Stejneger's beaked whale
- Steller sea lionalso Northern sea lion
- Strap-toothed whalealso Layard's beaked whale
- Striped dolphin
- Subantarctic fur seal
About this list
- S is the most common first letter in this list: 23 of the 141 sea mammals (16%).
- Shortest: “Seal”. Longest: “Southern right whale dolphin”.
- 22 names have more than one word.
- 6 can be spelled more than one way, and all the spellings count.
Quick answers
- How many sea mammals start with S?
- 23 of the 141 sea mammals in Icillion start with S, for example Seal, Sea lion and Sea otter.
- What is the longest name among sea mammals that start with S?
- The longest is “Southern right whale dolphin” and the shortest is “Seal”.
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