Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms
4. living organisms
5. Eukaryota
6. Animalia
7. Chordata
8. Vertebrata
9. Mammalia
10. Placentalia

Narrower term/s

• whales
• dolphins (animals)
• porpoises
• Physeteridae (family)[+]
  • Physeter (genus) [+]
    • Physeter macrocephalus (species)
  • Kogia (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Order containing around 80 species in extant 10 families, the living members characterized by being nearly fully adapted to aquatic life with a fusiform (streamlined) body, forelimbs modified into flippers, tiny vestigial hindlimbs that do not attach to the backbone and are hidden within the body, a tail with horizontal flukes, being nearly hairless, insulation provided by a thick layer of blubber, and typically a high level of intelligence.