Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti

Monodontidae Gray, 1821

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Delphinapterus Lacépède, 1804
Monodon Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Norwegian Bokmål: narhvalfamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: narkvalfamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: vitvalar

Literature

basis of record

van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376

Genbank

loading

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Monodontidae Gray, 1821. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136983

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136983

Last modified

2009-03-11 by William Perrin

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: