Odontoceti
toothed whales
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180404 via WoRMS external link
The toothed whales are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales with teeth, such as beaked whales and the sperm whales. 73 species of toothed whales are described.W CalCOFI holds 2,265 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1987 and 2022, across 18 taxa under it.R
- 2,265
- observations
- 2,265
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 16
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 5 taxa · Delphinidae most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148723")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:148723'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 5 taxa · Delphinidae most observed
- F Delphinidae ocean dolphins1,963
- F Phocoenidae porpoises232
- F Physeteridae44
- F Ziphiidae beaked whales24
- F Kogiidae pygmy and dwarf sperm whales2
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Cetacea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Rhaphicetus valenciae · source
- Photo · KK · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Toothed whale” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371288155
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗