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Cetacea (whales, dolphins, porpoises)

Scientific Classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Cetacea
Common:whales, dolphins, porpoises

The Cetacea is an order of mammals that include the whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Related Page Hierarchy

Species
Kingdom: Animalia (animals)
Phylum: Chordata (vertebrates, sea squirts)
Class: Mammalia (mammals)
Order: Afrosoricida (tenrecs, golden moles)
Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
Order: Carnivora (carnivores)
Order: Cetacea (whales, dolphins, porpoises)
Family: Balaenidae (right whales, bowhead whale)
Family: Balaenopteridae (rorquals)
Family: Delphinidae (dolphins)
Family: Eschrichtiidae (gray whale)
Family: Iniidae (Amazon river dolphin)
Family: Kogiidae (pygmy, dwarf sperm whales)
Family: Lipotidae (baiji)
Family: Monodontidae (beluga, narwhal)
Family: Neobalaenidae (pygmy right whale)
Family: Phocoenidae (porpoises)
Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales)
Family: Platanistidae (Ganges, Indus river dolphin)
Family: Pontoporiidae (franciscana)
Family: Ziphidae (beaked whales)
Order: Chiroptera (bats)
Order: Cingulata (armadillos)
Order: Dasyuromorphia (carnivorous marsupials)
Order: Diprotodontia (herbivorous marsupials)
Order: Dermoptera (flying lemurs or colugos)
Order: Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs)
Order: Hyracoidea (hyraxes or dassies)
Order: Lagomorpha (pikas, rabbits, hares)
Order: Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
Order: Monotremata (egg-laying mammals)
Order: Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)
Order: Pholidota (pangolins or scaly anteaters)
Order: Pilosa (sloths, anteaters)
Order: Primates (lemurs, bushbabies, monkeys, apes)
Order: Proboscidea (elephants)
Order: Rodentia (rodents)
Order: Scandentia (treeshrews)
Order: Sirenia (dugong, manatees)
Order: Soricomorpha (moles, shrews, solenodons)
Order: Tubulidentata (aardvark)