Cetacea
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Translingual
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(parvorder Mysticeti)
(parvorder Odontoceti)
Etymology
[edit]From Cete (Latin cetus (“whale, porpoise, dolphin”), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “sea-monster or huge fish”)) + -acea.
Proper noun
[edit]Cetacea
- Whales, porpoises and dolphins.
- A taxonomic infraorder within the order Artiodactyla.
- A taxonomic infraorder within the order Cetartiodactyla.
- (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (infraorder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Laurasiatheria – superorder; Artiodactyla – order
Hyponyms
[edit]- (infraorder): Neoceti (clade)
- Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales, including dolphins and porpoises) (parvorders) †Archaeoceti (extinct parvorder)
- Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Cetotheriidae, Eschrichtiidae, Delphinidae, Iniidae, Platanistidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae, Phocoenidae (porpoises), Kogiidae, Monodontidae (narwhals and belugas), Physeteridae (sperm whales), Ziphiidae (beaked whales) – families
- Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales, including dolphins and porpoises) (parvorders) †Archaeoceti (extinct parvorder)
Translations
[edit]taxonomic infraorder
References
[edit]Cetacea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cetacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Cetacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Cetacea at World Register of Marine Species
- Cetacea in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Cetacea at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Cetacea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Cetacea at Paleobiology Database
- 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. PMID 25923521, →DOI
