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Monodontidae Gray 1821
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Description
Family MONODONTIDAE
(NARWHAL AND BELUGA)
• Medium-sized toothed whales, with blunt heads, fusiform bodies narrowing toward tails, short beaks, mouths curving upward toward eyes, and no dorsal fins; rostrums have globe-like melons containing fatty tissue used in echolocation.
• 300-500 cm.
Arctic and subarctic regions.
Circumpolar, mainly Arctic andsubarctic seas.
2 genera, 2 species, 2 taxa.
No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Monodontidae, pp. 394-408 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 394, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6602871
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Monodontidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Monodontidae Gray, 1821 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014