Concept information
Preferred term
Whales
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Beaked Whale
- Beaked Whales
- Bottle-Nosed Whale, Giant
- Bottle-Nosed Whales, Giant
- Dwarf Sperm Whale
- Dwarf Sperm Whales
- Giant Bottle-Nosed Whale
- Giant Bottle Nosed Whales
- Giant Bottle-Nosed Whales
- Goose Beaked Whale
- Goose-Beaked Whale
- Goose-Beaked Whales
- Gray Whale
- Gray Whales
- Mesoplodon
- Narwhal
- Narwhals
- Pygmy Right Whale
- Pygmy Right Whales
- Pygmy Sperm Whale
- Pygmy Sperm Whales
- Right Whale, North Atlantic
- Right Whale, Pygmy
- Right Whale, Southern
- Right Whales, Pygmy
- Right Whales, Southern
- Southern Right Whale
- Southern Right Whales
- Sperm Whale, Dwarf
- Sperm Whale, Pygmy
- Sperm Whales, Dwarf
- Sperm Whales, Pygmy
- Whale, Southern Right
- Whales, Southern Right
Note
- some dolphins are misnamed "whales": note FALSE KILLER WHALE; PYGMY KILLER WHALE; and MELON-HEADED WHALE; are entry terms to DOLPHINS; PILOT WHALES; and KILLER WHALE; both types of dolphin, are also available
Scope note
- Large marine mammals of the order CETACEA. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in ANIMAL FEED and FERTILIZERS, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.
History note
- 91(75); was see under CETACEA 1975-90
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014907
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