Monodontidae
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Monodontidae
| image = Belugawhale_MMC.jpg
| image_caption = Beluga
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Mammalia
| ordo = Cetacea
| familia = Monodontidae
| familia_authority = Gray, 1821
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Delphinapterus
Monodon
}}
The cetacean family Monodontidae comprises two unusual whale species, the Narwhal, in which the male has a long tusk, and the white Beluga.
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Taxonomy
- ORDER Cetacea
- Suborder Mysticeti
- Family Eschrichtiidae: Gray Whale
- Family Balaenopteridae: rorquals
- Family Balaenidae right whales
- Family Neobalaenidae: Pygmy Right Whale
- Suborder Odontoceti
- Family Platanistoidea: river dolphins
- Family Delphinidae: oceanic dolphins
- Family Phocoenidae: porpoises
- Family Monodontidae
- Family Physeteridae: Sperm Whale
- Family Kogiidae: Pygmy Sperm Whale and Dwarf Sperm Whale
- Family Ziphiidae: beaked whalesde:Gründelwale
- Suborder Mysticeti
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