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Taxon: Family Monodontidae Gray, 1821 - white whales (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name:  Gray, 1821:310.
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Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Monodontinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821
Type: Monodon (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 136. [inferred]

Variants

Different rank: Monodontinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1038.

Homonyms

Junior homonym: Monodontinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1857, nom. illeg. Ref: P. Bouchet et al., 2017: 158.
Junior homonym: Monodontini (Tribe) Gray, 1857, nom. illeg. Ref: P. Bouchet et al., 2017: 158. [inferred]

Synonyms

Including: Delphinapteridae (Family) (Weber, 1904) Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 643).

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: narwals
: grondeldolfijnen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: white whales
: beluga and narwhal
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