Cetacea
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin cetus (“whale, porpoise, dolphin”), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “sea-monster or huge fish”)) + -acea.
Proper noun
Cetacea
- A taxonomic order within the superorder Laurasiatheria – the whales, porpoises and dolphins.
Hyponyms
- (order): Neoceti (clade)
- Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales, including dolpins and porpoises) (suborders) †Archaeoceti (extinct suborder)
- Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Eschrichtiidae, Neobalaenidae (baleen whales); Delphinidae, Iniidae, Platanistidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae (dolphins); Phocoenidae (porpoises); Kogiidae, Monodontidae (narwhals and belugas), Physeteridae (sperm whales), Ziphiidae (beaked whales) - families
- Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales, including dolpins and porpoises) (suborders) †Archaeoceti (extinct suborder)
Translations
References
- Cetacea at World Register of Marine Species
- Cetacea in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
- Cetacea on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Cetacea at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Cetacea at Encyclopedia of Life
- Cetacea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Cetacea at Fossilworks
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521
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