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Whale shark
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a slow moving filter feeding shark, the largest living fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 12.65 metres (41.50 ft) and a weight of more than 21.5 tonnes (47,000 lb), but unconfirmed...
Scientific Name:
- Rhincodon typus
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Blue Whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales (called Mysticeti). At up to 32.9 metres (108 ft) in length and 172 metric tons (190 short tons) or more in weight, it is the largest animal ever...
Scientific Name:
- Balaenoptera musculus
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Gray Whale
The gray (or grey) whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is a baleen whale that travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of about 16 meters (52 ft), a weight of 36 tons and an age of 50–60 years. Gray whales were once called...
Scientific Name:
- Eschrichtius robustus
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Fin Whale
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also called the finback whale, razorback, or common rorqual, is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. It is the second largest whale and the second largest living animal after the blue...
Scientific Name:
- Balaenoptera physalus
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Bryde's Whale
Bryde's whales are baleen whales, one of the "great whales" or rorquals. They prefer tropical and temperate waters over the polar seas that other whales in their family frequent. They are largely coastal rather than pelagic. Bryde's Whales are very...
Scientific Name:
- Balaenoptera brydei
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Baleen whale
The baleen whales, also called whalebone whales or great whales, form the Mysticeti, one of two suborders of the Cetacea (whales, dolphins, and porpoises). Baleen whales are characterized by having baleen plates for filtering food from water, rather...
Scientific Name:
- Mysticeti
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Humpback Whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from 12–16 metres (39–52 ft) and weigh approximately 36,000 kilograms (79,000 lb). The humpback has a distinctive body shape,...
Scientific Name:
- Megaptera novaeangliae
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Minke Whale
Minke whale (pronounced /ˈmɪŋki/) or lesser rorqual is a name given to two species of marine mammal belonging to a clade within the suborder of baleen whales. The minke whale was given its official designation by Lacepède in 1804, who described a...
Scientific Name:
- Balaenoptera acutorostrata
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Bowhead Whale
The Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus), also known as Greenland Right Whale or Arctic Whale, is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae (some, like Herman Melville in his classic Moby Dick, think they are a sub-species of Right whale). A...
Scientific Name:
- Balaena mysticetus
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Sperm Whale
The Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus, is a marine mammal species, order cetacea, a toothed whale (odontocete) having the largest brain of any animal. The name comes from the milky-white waxy substance, spermaceti, found in its head and originally...
Scientific Name:
- Physeter macrocephalus
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Pygmy Right Whale
The Pygmy Right Whale (Caperea marginata) is a baleen whale, the sole member of the family Neobalaenidae. First described by John Edward Gray in 1846, it is the smallest of the baleen whales, ranging between 4 and 6.5 m in length and 3,000 and 3,500...
Scientific Name:
- Caperea marginata
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Toothed whale
The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) form a suborder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, orca, dolphins, and others. As the name suggests, the suborder is characterized by having teeth, rather than baleen as do...
Scientific Name:
- Odontoceti
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Pygmy Beaked Whale
The Pygmy Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus), also known as the Bandolero Beaked Whale, Peruvian Beaked Whale and Lesser Beak Whale, is the smallest of the Mesoplodonts and one of the newest discoveries. Interestingly, there were at least two...
Scientific Name:
- Mesoplodon peruvianus
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Sei Whale
The Sei Whale (pronounced /ˈseɪ/ or /ˈsaɪ/), Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the third-largest rorqual after the Blue Whale and the Fin Whale. It can be found worldwide in all oceans and adjoining seas, and prefers deep off-shore waters....
Scientific Name:
- Balaenoptera borealis
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Pygmy Killer Whale
The Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata) is a small, rarely-seen cetacean of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). It derives its common name from the fact that it shares some physical characteristics with the orca ("killer whale") and it is...
Scientific Name:
- Feresa attenuata
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Pygmy Sperm Whale
The Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three species of toothed whale in the sperm whale family. They are not often sighted at sea, and most of what is known about the creatures comes from the study of washed-up specimens.
There has been...
Scientific Name:
- Kogia breviceps
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Dwarf Sperm Whale
The Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) is one of three species of whale in the sperm whale family. They are not often sighted at sea and most of our understanding of the creatures comes from the study of washed-up specimens.
Nowadays the dwarf sperm...
Scientific Name:
- Kogia sima
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Pygmy Blue Whale
The Pygmy Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) is a subspecies of the Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) found in the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean.
Reaching lengths of 24 metres (79 ft) it is smaller than the other commonly...
Scientific Name:
- Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda
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Right whale dolphin
Right whale dolphins are those in the genus Lissodelphis, the Northern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis) and the Southern Right Whale Dolphin (Lissodelphis peronii) These cetaceans are predominantly black, white beneath, and one of the few...
Scientific Name:
- Lissodelphis
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Northern Right Whale Dolphin
Northern right whale dolphin is a common name for Lissodelphis borealis, a small and slender species of mammal found in the Pacific Ocean. The northern right whale dolphin travels in groups of up to 2000, often with other cetaceans, in the deep...
Scientific Name:
- Lissodelphis borealis
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Southern Right Whale Dolphin
Southern right whale dolphin is a common name for Lissodelphis peronii, a small and slender species of mammal found in cool waters of the southern hemisphere. The dolphin is one of two species of right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis, the other being...
Scientific Name:
- Lissodelphis peronii
