whales

  1. Home
  2. top of the aat hierarchies
  3. Agents Facet
  4. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
  5. living organisms (entities)
  6. Eukaryota (domain)
  7. Animalia (kingdom)
  8. Chordata (phylum)
  9. Vertebrata (subphylum)
  10. Mammalia (class)
  11. Cetacea (order)
  12. whales
Scope note
General term referring to any of the larger species of marine mammals of the order Cetacea that have fore-limbs like fins and a tail with horizontal flukes, and are hunted for their oil and whalebone.
whales
Accepted term: 16-Mar-2026