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Families Of Marine Mammals Flashcards

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What family includes the polar bear?

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Family Ursidae

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What family includes the sperm whale?

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Family Physeteridae

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Which family has the spermaceti organ, extremely asymmetrical skull, and are very deep divers?

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Family Physeteridae

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Which family includes the pygmy and dwarf sperm whales?

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Family Kogiidae

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Which family composes of deep divers?

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Family Kogiidae

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Which family includes the beaked whales?

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Family Ziphiidae

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Which family might not have teeth that erupt & are seldom seen because they are offshore and deep divers?

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Family Ziphiidae

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Which family includes the Asian and Indian river dolphins?

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Family Platanistidae

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Which family includes the Amazon river dolphin?

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Family Innidae

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Which family includes the extinct Yangtze river dolphin?

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Family Lioptidae

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Which family includes the Franciscana dolphin?

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Family Pontoporiidae

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Which family includes the beluga & narwhal?

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Family Monodontidae

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Which family includes the dolphins, pilot whale & killer whale?

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Family Delphinidae

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Which family has conical teeth, elongated rostrum, falcate (curved, sickle, hooked) dorsal fins?

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Family Delphinidae

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Which family includes the porpoises?

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Family Phocoenidae

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Which family usually has spade shaped teeth, short rostrum, small triangular dorsal fin, and is generally small in size?

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Family Phocoenidae

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Which family includes the right whales?

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Family Balaenidae

18
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Which family has arch-shaped mouths and long baleen plates?

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Family Balaenidae

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Which family includes the pygmy right whale?

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Family Neobalaenidae

20
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Which family includes the gray whale?

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Family Eschrichtiidae

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Which family has blunt, rounded heads?

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Family Eschrichtiidae

22
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Which family includes the rorquals: Minke, sei, Bryde’s, blue, fin, and humpback?

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Family Balaenopteridae

23
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Which family has ventral pleats?

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Family Balaenopteridae

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Which family contains the manatees?

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Family Trichechidae

25
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Which family has rounded flukes, flat teeth, and live in the Atlantic or adjacent rivers?

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Family Trichechidae

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Which family contains the dugongs?

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Family Dugongidae

27
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Which family has split flukes, peg-like teeth, and lives in the Pacific & Indian Oceans?

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Family Dugongidae

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Which family includes the sea otters?

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Family Mustelidae

29
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Which family contains the sea lions and fur seals?

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Family Otariidae

30
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Which family contains the true seals?

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Family Phocidae

31
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Which family contains the walruses?

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Family Odobenidae

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