Monodontidae
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The cetacean family Monodontidae comprises two unusual whale species, the Narwhal, in which the male has a long tusk, and the white Beluga.
Taxonomy
- ORDER Cetacea
- * Suborder Mysticeti
- ** Family Eschrichtiidae: Gray Whale
- ** Family Balaenopteridae: rorquals
- ** Family Balaenidae right whales
- ** Family Neobalaenidae: Pygmy Right Whale
- * Suborder Odontoceti
- ** Family Platanistoidea: river dolphins
- ** Family Delphinidae: oceanic dolphins
- ** Family Phocoenidae: porpoises
- ** Family Monodontidae
- *** Beluga, Delphinapterus leucas
- *** Narwhal, Monodon monoceros
- ** Family Physeteridae: Sperm Whale
- ** Family Kogiidae: Pygmy Sperm Whale and Dwarf Sperm Whale
- ** Family Ziphiidae: beaked whales
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