Superfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Odontoceti

toothed whales

WoRMS 148723ITIS 180404key worms:148723

2026-08-05: itis_id 180404 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Rhaphicetus valenciae

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Odontoceti — Photo · KK · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 2,167 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020, across 17 taxa under it.R

2,167
observations: 2,167
records: 1987–2020
years: 1
datasets: 16
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 5 taxa

F Delphinidae ocean dolphins1,867
F Phocoenidae porpoises232
F Physeteridae42
F Ziphiidae beaked whales24
F Kogiidae pygmy and dwarf sperm whales2

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:148723")

Odontoceti

Observed in

Under it · 5 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.