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Odontoceti (Toothed whales)

Phocoena phocoena. Photo: (c) Ecomare/Salko de Wolf, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and sperm whales. Seventy-three species of toothed whales (also called odontocetes) are described. They are one of two living groups of cetaceans, the other being the baleen whales (Mysticeti), which have baleen instead of teeth. The two groups are thought to have diverged around 34 million years ago (mya).

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)
    - Subphylum: Vertebrata (Vertebrates)
      - Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
        Subclass: Theria (Therians)
        Infraclass: Placentalia (Placental mammals)
        Superorder: Laurasiatheria (Ungulates, carnivorans, and allies)
        Order: Artiodactyla (Even-toed ungulates and cetaceans)
        Suborder: Whippomorpha (Cetaceans and hippopotamuses)
        Infraorder: Cetacea (Cetaceans)
        Parvorder: Odontoceti (Toothed whales)
        Superfamily: Delphinoidea (4)
        Superfamily: Physeteroidea (1)
        Superfamily: Ziphioidea (1)

Subtaxa

Superfamily: Delphinoidea

Superfamily: Physeteroidea

Superfamily: Ziphioidea

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