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distribution of
narwhals is
restricted to the
Arctic and
Atlantic Oceans.
Monodontids have a wide-ranging
carnivorous diet,
feeding on fish, molluscs, and...
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Monodontid alphaherpesvirus 1 (MoHV-1) is a
species of
virus in the
family Herpesviridae. The
virus is able to
infect narwhals and
beluga whales. The name...
- (with the
exception of
monodontids and ziphiids).
Whale skulls have
small eye orbits, long
snouts (with the
exception of
monodontids and ziphiids) and eyes...
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contains monodontids,
dolphins and porpoises)
split from
other toothed whales, odontoceti,
between 11 and 15
million years ago.
Monodontids then split...
- Furusawa, Hitoshi; Tachibana, Makino; Kimura,
Masaichi (2019). "First
monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the
early Pliocene of the north-western...
- Mads P.; Reeves,
Randall R. (July 1993). "Description of an
anomalous Monodontid skull from West Greenland: a
possible hybrid?".
Marine Mammal Science...
- Vélez-Juarbe;
Nicholas D.
Pyenson (2012). "Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new
monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the
Pliocene of the
western North...
- Mads P.; Reeves,
Randall R. (July 1993). "Description of an
Anomalous Monodontid Skull from West Greenland: A
Possible Hybrid?".
Marine Mammal Science...
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Pygmy right whale Toothed whales (odontocetes)
Dolphins (delphinids)
Monodontids:
beluga and
narwhal Beluga Narwhal Porpoises (phocoenids)
Sperm whale...
- were
found ****her
south than its relatives,
supporting the
theory that
monodontids evolved from warm
water genera before becoming adapted to cold water...
