Cetacea 
AphiaID: 2688

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta

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
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Links		To GenBank (0 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To ITIS
Image		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: BeRMS (2013). Cetacea. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2688 on 2013-05-25
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