Odontoceti

suborder of the order cetaceans (Cetacea)
Taxon taxon Q144144
Odontoceti
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Summary

Odontoceti is a taxon[1]. Odontoceti ranks in the top 0.41% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,180 views/month, #796 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: parvorder[3], suborder[4], superfamily[5]
  • Parent taxon: Cetacea[6], Neoceti[7]
  • Taxon name: Odontoceti[8]
  • Subclass of: whale[9]
  • Commons category: Odontoceti[10]
  • Temporal range start: Priabonian[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Toothed whales[12]
  • Taxon common name: Зъбати китове[13], Morvil dantek[14], Odontocet[15], ozubení[16], Tandhvaler[17], Zahnwale[18], Toothed whales[19], Dentocetacoj[20], Odontocetos[21], Hammasvaalalised[22], Hammasvalaat[23], Odontocète[24], לווייתני שיניים[25], Kitovi zubani[26]

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Identifiers

Odontoceti's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 424322[27]. Odontoceti's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 9722[28]. Odontoceti's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559237[29]. Odontoceti's ITIS TSN is recorded as 180404[30].

Why It Matters

Odontoceti has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Odontoceti is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [28] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [30] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17d ago · Mapenite · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'ban', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'cs
    National library of latvia id → 000286434
    Harper's tag → toothed-whales
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of latvia id: 000286434"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → parvorder, suborder, superfamily
    Parent taxon → Cetacea, Neoceti
    Temporal range start → Priabonian
    Instance of → taxon
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 9981, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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