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2. Cetomimiformes - Wikipedia

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   Named after their whale-shaped body (from the Greek ketos meaning "whale" or "sea monster", mimos meaning "imitative" and the Latin forma meaning "form"), the Cetomimiformes have extremely large mouths and highly distensible stomachs.

3. List of cetaceans - Wikipedia

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   The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.

4. Porpoise - Wikipedia

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   There are eight extant species of porpoise, all among the smallest of the toothed whales. Porpoises are distinguished from dolphins by their flattened, spade-shaped teeth distinct from the conical teeth of dolphins, and lack of a pronounced beak, although some dolphins (e.g. Hector's dolphin) also lack a pronounced beak

5. Cetomimidae - Wikipedia

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   Female Cetomimidae, also known as a flabby whalefish . Living at extreme, lightless depths, adult females have evolved an exceptionally well-developed lateral line system. . Their eyes are either very small or vestigial and instead this system of sensory pores (running the length of the body in a distinct lateral line) helps the fish to accurately perceive its surroundings by detecting vibrati

6. Bowhead whale - Wikipedia

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   The bowhead whale has been hunted for blubber, meat, oil, bones, and baleen. Like the right whale, it swims slowly, and floats after death, making it ideal for whaling. [86] Before commercial whaling, they were estimated to number 50,000. [87] Paleo-Eskimo sites indicate bowhead whales were eaten in sites from perhaps 4000 BC. Inuit people near ...

7. Northern bottlenose whale - Wikipedia

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   When physically mature, northern bottlenose whales can reach 9.8 metres (32 ft) in length, [5] smaller than giant beaked whales, and larger than known records of southern bottlenose whales. Their foreheads, or melons are sexually dimorphic, so that mature males have larger melons, which are flattened or square shape, while mature females and ...