Reflective Journal 5 : Types of Whales .

· Balaenopteridae - Rorquals
· Eschrichtiidae - Gray Whale
· Balaenidae - Right Whales
· Neobalaenidae - Pygmy Right Whale
The suborder Odontoceti, the largest within the order Cetacea, comprises the toothed whales, which includes all dolphins and porpoises. The largest Odontocete or toothed whale is the Sperm Whale reaching lengths of 20 metres. An animal of great extremes the Sperm Whale has the largest brain of any animal and probably makes the deepest dive of any whale, possibly up to 3000 metres deep that may last up to two hours in duration.
Odontoceti
· Physeteridae - Sperm Whales
· Kogiidae - Dwarf and Pygmy Sperm Whales
· Monodontidae - White Whales and Narwhal
· Ziphiidae - Beaked Whales and Bottlenose Whales
· Delphinidae - Dolphins, Humpbacked Dolphins, Pilot & Killer Whales
· Plantanistidae, Iniidae, Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae - River Dolphins
· Phocoenidae - Porpoises

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