Cetacea Brisson, 1762

kingdom Animalia > phylum Chordata > subphylum Vertebrata > infraphylum Gnathostomata > class Mammalia > subclass Theria > order Cetartiodactyla > suborder Cetancodonta > infraorder Cetacea

RankInfraorder
Statusaccepted
Aphia IDurn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2688
NCBI ID9721
Common names balinalar , banginiai, cetacei, hvaler, hvaler, kiti, kvalar, valar, Wale, walenie, walvissen, whales, dolphins and porpoises, Κητώδη, Китоподібні, ктообразные
Environments marine, brackish, freshwater

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Child taxa

Superfamily Odontoceti
Superfamily Mysticeti

Statistics

Occurrence records 1,701,366
Species level 1,603,633
Absence records 246,066
Species 91
Taxa 139
Datasets 1,014
Time range 1526 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records 2,369
Not marine 7
Marine unsure 595
No coordinates 2,360
Zero coordinates 2

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure 595
No accepted name available 977

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 730,534 9,025
decimalLatitude 2,207 49
decimalLongitude 2,296 59
eventDate 12,440 0
maximumDepthInMeters 1,422,228 4,892
minimumDepthInMeters 1,426,199 4,888
occurrenceStatus 68,744 0
scientificName 1 0
scientificNameID 5,513 70,224

Spatial issues

Records on land 58,278
More than 20 km from shore 1,733
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth 1,843

Distribution

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