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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuborder Odontoceti — thesperm whales .
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Physteter + -idae
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The toothed whales are divided into the Physeteridae, the Delphinidae, and the Platanistidae, which latter is placed between the two other families, and is divided into the sub-families Iniinae and
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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