Cetacea

See also: cetacea and cetácea

Translingual

Balaenoptera musculus
(suborder Mysticeti)

Cephalarhynchus commersonii
(suborder Odontoceti)

Etymology

From Cete (Latin cetus (“whale, porpoise, dolphin”), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “sea-monster or huge fish”)) +‎ -acea.

Proper noun

Cetacea

1. The whales, porpoises and dolphins
   1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia.
   2. A taxonomic infraorder within the order Artiodactyla.
   3. A taxonomic infraorder within the order Cetartiodactyla.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class

Hyponyms

• (order): Neoceti (clade)
  • Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales, including dolpins and porpoises) (suborders) †Archaeoceti (extinct suborder)
    • Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Eschrichtiidae, Neobalaenidae (baleen whales); Delphinidae, Iniidae, Platanistidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae (dolphins); Phocoenidae (porpoises); Kogiidae, Monodontidae (narwhals and belugas), Physeteridae (sperm whales), Ziphiidae (beaked whales) - families

Translations

taxonomic order

• Breton: morviled (br) pl
• Czech: kytovci m pl
• French: cétacé (fr) m
• Georgian: ვეშაპისნაირნი (vešaṗisnairni)
• German: Wale (de) m pl, Wale und Delphine m pl
• Greek: κητώδη (el) (kitódi)

References

• Cetacea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cetacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cetacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cetacea at World Register of Marine Species
• Cetacea in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• Cetacea at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Cetacea at Encyclopedia of Life
• Cetacea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Cetacea at Paleobiology Database
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248