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Title: The seals and whales of the British seas
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Southwell, Thomas, 1831-1909
Subjects: Whales Seals (Animals) Cetacea
Publisher: London, Jarrold and Sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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SEALS AND WHALES OF THE BRITISH SEAS. 85 ODONTOCETI (TOOTHED WHALES). PHYSETERIDAI. The second sub-order into which tlie Cetacea are divided, is theOdontoccti, or Toothed Wliales. In this section, baleen is never present, butwell-developed teeth are found in one or both jaws of the adult; in somespecies they are very numerous ; sometimes, though rarely, deciduous. Theblow-hole is single, and the skull generally asymmetrical, or not preciselyalike on both sides of the medial line. Professor Flower divides theOdontoccti into three families, one of which, the Ilatanistida:, as already said,is found only in India and South America : the other two, Pliysetciida;and DclpliinidcB, arc represented in our Fauna by about fifteen species. Of the Pliysctcrida:, four genera are represented in the British faunaby four or five species ; namely, one Physctcr, the Sperm Whale ; twoHyperoodons, the common Beaked Whale, and a doubtful species called theBroad-fronted Beaked Whale ; one Ziphiiis, Cuviers

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