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The sperm whale or cachalot [a] (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises.
The dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) is a sperm whale that inhabits temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, in particular continental shelves and slopes.It was first described by biologist Richard Owen in 1866, based on illustrations by naturalist Sir Walter Elliot.
Urechis unicinctus, known as the fat innkeeper worm or penis fish, [3] [4] is a species of marine spoon worm in East Asia.It is found in Bohai Gulf of China and off the Korean and Hokkaido coasts. [4]
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Skull of Omura's whale in National Museum of Natural Science. The six specimens obtained in the Solomon Sea in 1976 were only noted to be smaller at sexual maturity than the "ordinary" Bryde's whales caught off New Zealand, whereas the two caught near the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1978 were not differentiated from the 118 other "ordinary" Bryde's whales taken in the eastern Indian Ocean, south ...
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