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Large marine mammals of the order CETACEA. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in ANIMAL FEED and FERTILIZERS, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.
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- Whale
- Beaked Whales
- Berardius
- Caperea
- Dwarf Sperm Whale
- Eschrichtius robustus
- Eubalaena australis
- Giant Bottle-Nosed Whales
- Goose-Beaked Whale
- Gray Whale
- Grey Whale
- Mesoplodon
- Monodon monoceros
- Narwhals
- North Atlantic Right Whale
- Pygmy Right Whale
- Pygmy Sperm Whale
- Right Whale, North Atlantic
- Right Whale, Southern
- Ziphiidae
- Ziphius
- Beaked Whale
- Bottle-Nosed Whale, Giant
- Bottle-Nosed Whales, Giant
- Dwarf Sperm Whales
- Giant Bottle Nosed Whales
- Giant Bottle-Nosed Whale
- Goose Beaked Whale
- Goose-Beaked Whales
- Gray Whales
- Grey Whales
- Narwhal
- Pygmy Right Whales
- Pygmy Sperm Whales
- Right Whale, Pygmy
- Right Whales, Pygmy
- Right Whales, Southern
- Southern Right Whale
- Southern Right Whales
- Sperm Whale, Dwarf
- Sperm Whale, Pygmy
- Sperm Whales, Dwarf
- Sperm Whales, Pygmy
- Whale, Grey
- Whale, Southern Right
- Whales, Grey
- Whales, Southern Right
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Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, embryology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, injuries, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, physiology, psychology, surgery, urine, virology.
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some dolphins are misnamed "whales": note FALSE KILLER WHALE; PYGMY KILLER WHALE; and MELON-HEADED WHALE; are entry terms to DOLPHINS; PILOT WHALES; and KILLER WHALE; both types of dolphin, are also available
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91(75); was see under CETACEA 1975-90
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Whales. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014907. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014907
- Whales. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale
- Whales. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1865281