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    Genus Accepted

    Physeter Linnaeus, 1758

    True Sperm Whales

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Capodoglio Italian
      Kaszalot Polish
      Pottwale German
      True Sperm Whales English
      sperm whales English
      Кашалоты Russian
      ראשתן Hebrew
      マッコウクジラ属 Japanese
      抹香鯨屬 Chinese

      Treatments

      5 results

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      20 results
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      WoRMS (Mar. (2013).
      as per family.
      Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
      Rafinesque, C.S. (1815). Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'universe et des corps organisés. Palermo: Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp.
      Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865
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      Würsig, Bernd, J. G. M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds. (2018). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd Edition.
      Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vol. 1.

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