beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas - copyright Uko Gorter Uko Gorter, Natural History Illustration

 

Cetaceans
Odontocetes (toothed whales)

beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas - click to view enlargement short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus - click to view enlargement southern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon planifrons - click to view enlargement pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps - click to view enlargement strap-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon layardii - click to view enlargement True's beaked whale (southern form), Mesoplodon mirus - click to view enlargement sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus - click to view enlargement Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris - click to view enlargement

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illustration of sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus - copyright Uko Gorter

Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus

male top, female bottom




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