Monodontidae Gray 1821
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...
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Lynx Edicions
2014
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Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/6602925 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6602925 |
Summary: | 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. 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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