Mammalia · Artiodactyla
Narwhal
Monodon monoceros
Medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round beneath sea ice, lacking a dorsal fin so it can maneuver easily beneath dense pack ice.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 257 licence-filtered records across 77 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (25)
- Belgian Marine Mammals (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- DOME: Contaminants and biological effects of contaminants (including fish disease) in biota data (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Happywhale - Narwhal in Arctic Ocean (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- LACM Vertebrates (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Mammal (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Mammals, amphibians and reptiles collection at UiT (Tromsø) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Natural History Museum Denmark|Quaternary Zoology (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Extant Biology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Material Samples (USNM) (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- NZF Pattedyratlas (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Royal Ontario Museum Mammalogy (ROMM) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum - Mammalogy Collection (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Mammalogy Collection (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)