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Cetacea 
AphiaID: 2688

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder)
Authority Brisson, 1762
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Infraorder
Parent Cetancodonta
Source  basis of record: Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch walvissen  [details]
English whales, dolphins and porpoises  [details]
German Wale  [details]
Italian cetacei  [details]
Lithuanian banginiai  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Κητώδη  [details]
Norwegian hvaler  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål hvaler  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk kvalar  [details]
Polish walenie  [details]
Russian ктообразные  [details]
Slovenian kiti  [details]
Swedish valar  [details]
Turkish balinalar  [details]
Ukrainian Китоподібні  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Superfamily Mysticeti
Superfamily Odontoceti

Superfamily Cetodontes accepted as Odontoceti
Superfamily Delphiniceti accepted as Odontoceti
Superfamily Denticete accepted as Odontoceti
Superfamily Denticeti accepted as Odontoceti
Superfamily Odontoceta accepted as Odontoceti
Superfamily Odontocete accepted as Odontoceti
Superfamily Squaloceti accepted as Odontoceti
Environment marine, brackish, fresh
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank (0 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Formerly an order, but now contained within Order Cetartiodactyla [details]
Image 
Leboucq (1904, fig. 6)
Leboucq (1904, fig. 6)
added on 2009-08-18 - author: H. Leboucq
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2688
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2008-11-20 17:01:47Z  changed  Perrin, William
2008-11-24 16:47:17Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cetacea. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2688 on 2013-05-22
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