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Cetaceans - Order Cetacea
Cetaceans (Order Cetacea) are marine mammals that includes toothed whales and toothless, filter-feeding (baleen) whales. Cetaceans are a unique and ...
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Ten Facts About Dolphins
Dolphins belong to a group of mammals referred to as cetaceans (or Cetacea). The cetaceans are further broken down into two main groups, the toothed whales ...
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Irrawaddy Dolphin - Orcaella brevirostris
Irrawady dolphins belong to the group of cetaceans called the odontocetes ... Data Deficient (Source: Cetacean). There are less than 1000 Irrawaddy dolphins ...
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Northern Bottlenose Whale - Hyperoodon ampullatus
Cetacean Specialist Group 1996. 'Hyperoodon ampullatus' (On-line), IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Accessed June 21 2006. Burnie, D. and D.E. Wilson. ...
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Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin - Lagenorhynchus acutus
The Atlantic white sided dolphin belongs to the Family Delphinidae, the largest family of the Order Cetacea, which includes killer whales, pilot whales, ...
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Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus
Description: The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) belongs to the Family Delphinidae, the largest family of the Order Cetacea, which includes killer ...
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Common Dolphin - Delphinus delphis
"Common Dolphin" (On-line), American Cetacean Society. Accessed August 15, 2005. Alspaugh, M. 2000. "Delphinus delphis" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. ...
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Dusky Dolphin - Lagenorhynchus obscurus
Kingdom: Animalia; Phylum: Chordata; Class: Mammalia; Order: Cetacea; Family: Delphinidea; Genus: Lagenorhynchus; Species: Lagenorhynchus obscurus ...
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Gray Whale - Eschrichtius robustus
Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) are cetaceans that belong to the Suborder Mysticeti, the Baleen whales. Baleen whales, also called filter-feeding whales ...
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Blue Whale - Balaenoptera musculus
balaenopteridae · cetaceans · mammals · whales. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries ...
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