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Physeteridae Gray 1821
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Description
Family PHYSETERIDAE
(SPERM WHALE)
• Largest of the toothed whales with a disproportionately large, box-like head containing the spermaceti organ complex, and flat paddle-shaped foreflippers; conical teeth on narrow lower jaw; most sexually dimorphic cetacean in body length and weight.
• 1100-1500 cm.
• Cosmopolitan, inhabiting all the world’s oceans.
Deep, ice-free oceanic waters.
1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.
I species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Physeteridae, pp. 300-317 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 300, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6607611
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Physeteridae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Physeteridae Gray, 1821 sec. Mittermeier & Wilson, 2014