Cetacea

See also: cetacea and cetácea

Translingual

Balaenoptera musculus
(parvorder Mysticeti)

Cephalarhynchus commersonii
(parvorder Odontoceti)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Cetacea

1. Whales, porpoises and dolphins.
   1. A taxonomic infraorder within the order Artiodactyla.
   2. A taxonomic infraorder within the order Cetartiodactyla.
   3. (obsolete) A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia.

Hypernyms

• (infraorder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Laurasiatheria – superorder; Artiodactyla – order

Hyponyms

• (infraorder): Neoceti (clade)
  • Mysticeti (baleen whales), Odontoceti (toothed whales, including dolphins and porpoises) (parvorders) †Archaeoceti (extinct parvorder)
    • Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Cetotheriidae, Eschrichtiidae, Delphinidae, Iniidae, Platanistidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae, Phocoenidae (porpoises), Kogiidae, Monodontidae (narwhals and belugas), Physeteridae (sperm whales), Ziphiidae (beaked whales) – families

Translations

taxonomic infraorder

• 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 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