1. Whales : Whale Information & Pictures - All Types of Whales

... ampullatus Southern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon planifrons Mysticeti (baleen whales or mysticetes) Mysticeti or baleen whales - These "great whales" are among the largest animals on earth ...
http://www.worldscreature ...water-species/whales/

2. Massachusetts Whale Watching 7 Seas Whale Watch Gloucester Cape Ann

... Cetaceans. Cetaceans are divided into two major groups: the Odontocetes, or Toothed Whales, and the Mysticetes (from the Greek word for "mustache"), or Baleen Whales. Odontocetes comprise the Dolphins ...
http://www.7seas-whalewatch.com/whalinfo.html

3. Classification of the Order Cetacea

Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law Home Classification of the Order CETACEA SCIENTIFIC NAME COMMON NAME Suborder Mysticeti (baleen whales or mysticetes) Family Balaenidae Right whales ...
http://www.intfish.plus.c ...ary/terms/cetacea.htm

4. http://www.sgisland.org/pages/environ/w_start.htm

... This large order divides naturally into two suborders: the Odontocetes, or toothed whales, and the Mysticetes, or baleen whales. Until the advent of whaling in the early 1900s, the Southern Ocean ...
http://www.sgisland.org/pages/environ/w_start.htm

5. Mysticetes (Baleen Whales)

... News Report a Sighting Shopping & Gifts Sightings Species Guide Strandings WDCS Mastercard WDCS (Japanese) Whale Watching Whaling and Dolphin Species Guide - Mysticetes (Baleen Whales) Blue whale ...
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/p ...16CAE802568F8004BE730

6. Fishing Zones -- Your Best Online {Keywordns} Resource!

... However, some Whales do not have teeth for feeding and are placed under the group mysticetes. Most dolphins inhabit the tropical and pleasantly warm waters throughout the world. What most people don ...
http://www.fishingzones.c ...letters/article2.html

7. Cetaceans of the Mediterranean - Taxonomy

... The order Cetacea, for example, includes two Suborders: Odontocetes and Mysticetes. In the following examples we will compare the complete taxonomy of Bottlenose dolphins, the most common "dolphin ...
http://solmar.saclantc.na ...MMeng/tassonomia.html

8. Oahu North Shore Whalewatching Cruise from Haleiwa

... The two types of whales include odontocetes (toothed whales) and mysticetes (baleen whales). The toothed whales include sperm whales, killer whales, beaked whales, and all porpoises and dolphins ...
http://www.oahutours.net/ ...urDetail.cfm/tid/2534

9. The research - ORCA TYSFJORD - whale watching in Tysfjord, Norway.

... There is 79 whale species in the world: Odontocetes, 68 species, for example sperm whale, killer whale - whales with baleens, Mysticetes, 11 species, for example minke whale, blue whale. The killer ...
http://www.tysfjord-turis ...rch/the_research.html

10. Whales and Dolphins

... Under the collective name of whales, (dolphins and porpoises are small ones) they belong to the Order Cetacea, which is divided into two sub-orders -- Mysticetes or baleen whales and Odontocetes or ...
http://www.enhg.org/b/b23/23_11.htm

11. Whales - Surge Whale Watching and Research Tours Gulf of Maine Bay of Fundy ...

... All four fall under the baleen whale group or mysticetes. Baleen whales have no teeth. Instead they have fringed baleen plates that hang like vertical venetian blinds from the upper jaw. The whales ...
http://www.whale-watch-ea .../watching/whales.html

12. DOLPHINS, BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS, PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHINS, AUSTRALIAN SEALIFE...

... water Melon - Fatty tissue on the Dolphins forehead that is used for their Echolocation system Mysticetes - Whales with plates instead of teeth Odontocetes - Dolphins, Purpoises and Whales who have ...
http://www.australianexplorer.com/dolphins.htm

13. Virtual Antarctica Science: Whales and Dolphins

... There are two main types of whales, both of which are found in the Antarctic: the "baleen whales", or mysticetes (such as the humpbacks and fin whales), and the "toothed whales", or odontocetes ...
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ ...ce/whales/whales.html

14. NCSE Resource

... The late Oligocene Mammalodon from Australia is a toothed mysticete structurally intermediate between the mysticetes and the archaeocetes. The extinct cetotheres are intermediate between Mammalodon ...
http://www.ncseweb.org/re ...39s_wr_11_24_2004.asp

15. Dolphin Education Project - Cetaceans

... Unlike the mysticetes, odontocetes feed on "solitary" prey. All odontocetes hunt and catch a wide variety of individual fish, squid, crustaceans, and in some species, other mammals. ^^to top^^ Baleen ...
http://www.dolphinresearc ...ucation_cateceans.htm

16. Stellwagen Bank Site Report-PCBs

... Baccarro Banks. The sample concentrations fell within the lower range of values reported for other mysticetes and were expected to be below those which produce reproductive disorders in marine mammals ...
http://www.stellwagen.noa ...t/sitereport/pcb.html

17. Dolphins Plus - Come to Swim with Dolphins! Swimming with dolphins at Florid...

... Mysticetes do not have teeth, but have baleen plates suspended from the roof of their mouth and have two nasal openings (blowholes). Odontocetes (which include bottlenose dolphins) have anywhere from ...
http://www.dolphinsplus.c ...lphin-information.htm

18. Scholarship Pk - AdMoreTraffic Inc

... teeth. Whales that don't have teeth to eat with are mysticetes. Dolphin teeth are cone-shaped, and it's these teeth that set them apart from other sea animals. Most dolphins inhabit the tropical and ...
http://www.scholarshippk. ...letters/article3.html

19. Whales

... Mysticetes are baleen whales, which feed by filtering animal plankton and small schooling fish from the water through bristlelike baleen plates growing from the upper jaw. Odontocetes are toothed ...
http://www.seagrant.gso.u ...tsheets/whales01.html

20. Unique Whale Science Images

... Subsequent webpages (Volumes) appearing on this website will contain images that convey information about other marine mammals, including toothed whales (odontocetes) and baleen whales (mysticetes ...
http://www.spermwhale.org/

21. Marine Species Conservation - Dolphins and Porpoises

... One group, the Mysticetes or baleen whales, with 11 species, includes the largest whales, namely the blue and fin whales. Instead of teeth, they have long horny plates edged with bristle-like fibres ...
http://www.deh.gov.au/coa ...etaceans/dolphin.html

22. ~ Under The Sea ~

... The other whales, called baleen whales, have the scientific name mysticetes. All dolphins have cone shaped teeth. They live in temperate and tropical waters worldwide. There are also several species ...
http://www.blueyze.com/sea.html

23. Evolution - Index Page

... Primate Phylogeny Lucy Phylogenetic Trees Luminescence Dating Lyell, Charles M ó Malawi to Mysticetes A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X ...
http://homes.aol.com/darwinpage/indexpage.htm

24. Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station - NB - Canada, Seal and Whale...

... which regularly occur in the Bay of Fundy can be divided into two groups, baleen whales or mysticetes and toothed cetaceans or odontocetes. Most are seasonal residents from late spring to early ...
http://www.gmwsrs.org/whales.htm

25. F P O Shippings

... Whales that don't have teeth to eat with are mysticetes. Dolphin teeth are cone-shaped, and it's these teeth that set them apart from other sea animals. You'll be able to find dolphins living in ...
http://www.fposhippings.c ...letters/article1.html

26. Killer Whales: Scientific Classification

... Modern forms of both odontocetes and mysticetes appear in the fossil record an estimated five to seven million years ago. Some believe the early whales arose 55 to 65 million years ago from (now ...
http://www.seaworld.org/i ...Whale/sciclasskw.html

27. vacation puerto rico - whale watching tours

... Those with teeth are called Odontocetes like killer whales and dolphins and those without teeth are called Mysticetes or baleen whales including the great whales such as right, bowhead, blue, fin ...
http://www.vacationpuertorico.com/whale.html

28. Gray Whales

... Called "devilfish" by whalers because of the female's ferocity in protecting their calves, these whales are in the family Mysticetes, or baleen whales in their manner of feeding, through baleen ...
http://www.worldwidewhale.com/grays.html

29. Cetecean Skull Replicas from Arizona Dry Bones

... There are two major groups of cetaceans; the toothed whales, or odontocetes, and the baleen whales, or mysticetes. Cetaceans range in size from the tiny Gulf of California Harbor Porpoise (Phocena ...
http://www.azdrybones.com/cetacea.htm

30. Timeline 70 Million to 1 Million

... p.A10) 35 Million The oldest mysticetes, filter-feeding baleen whales with teeth (aetiocetids) instead of baleen, date to about this time from Antarctica. 35-29Million It was during the Oligocene that ...
http://www.timelines.ws/00070_1MIL.HTML

31. Saving Dolphins

... Dolphins are odontocetes, or toothed whales; mysticetes, or baleen whales, utilize baleen (thick keratinized plates) to feed. Bottlenose dolphins further belong to the family Delphinidae, the oceanic ...
http://www.savingdolphins ...bottlenoseindepth.php

32. ..:: Vaquita Marina ::..

... You can find info about Vaquita in these sites The Vaquita is an odontocete The cetaceans include the mysticetes or baleen whales and the odonotocetes, which are the dolphins and porpoises. The most ...
http://www.vaquitamarina. ...nglish/odontoceto.php

33. WhaleNet/Field Study

... Fish Marine Mammals/Whales in the Gulf of Maine Mysticetes and Odontocetes Echolocation, Communication and Sound Respiration Diving Reflex Migration Animal behavior Social Interaction Characteristics ...
http://whale.wheelock.edu ...stuff/Ed654_page.html

34. Whales and Dolphins guide for sailing in Turkey & Greece - Whale watchin...

... These Mysticetes are known to leap completely out of the water and they produce a wide variety of low frequency sounds and may also produce high frequency pulses. Identification Guide Most cetaceans ...
http://sailingissues.com/dolphins-whales.html