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Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed Whales)
(Giant) Sperm Whale (Physeter catadon)
Source: Microsoft® Encarta® 96 Encyclopedia
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"Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed Whales)".
In Robb's Online Multimedia Database of Animals and Plants.
Dec. 21, 1997.
Families of the Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed Whales)
According to Fraser & Purves (1960)- Physeteridae (sperm whales)
- Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
- Monodontidae (monodontids, the narwhal and beluga)
- Platanistidae (river dolphins)
- Stenidae (stenids, e.g. genera Sotalia and Steno)
- Phocoenidae (porpoises)
- Delphinidae (dolphins)
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Sources:- Corbet, Gordon & Denys Ovendon. 1980. Pareys Buch der Säugetiere. Parey: Hamburg. 240p.
- Microsoft Corporation. 1996. Microsoft® Encarta® 96 Encyclopedia.
- Vaughan, Terry A. 1978. Mammalogy. Saunders College: Philadelphia. 522p.