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51 Cards in this Set
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Cetacea
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Order of Whales
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Mysticeti
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Suborder of Baleen Whales
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Odontoceti
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Suborder of Toothed Whales
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Carnivora
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Order of meat eaters
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Otarridae
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Family of fur seals and sea lions
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Odobenidae
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Family of walrus
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Phocidae
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Family of seals
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Ursidae
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Family of polar bear
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Mustelidae
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family of sea otter
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Sirenia
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Order with manatees and dugongs
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Trichechidae
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family of Manatees
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Dugongidae
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Family of dugongs
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Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
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pacific white sided dolphin
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trichechus manatus
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west indian or caribbean manatee
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megaptera novaeangliae
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Humpback whale
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balaenoptera musculus
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blue whale
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enhydra lutris
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sea otter
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balaenopteridae
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family of Rorquals; feed by gulping
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delphinidae
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Family of Dolphins
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balaenidae
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family of Right whales; feed by skimming
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lissodelphis borealis
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northern right whale dolphin
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balaenoptera acutorostrata
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minke whale
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phocoena phocoena
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harbour porpoise
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tursiops truncatus
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bottlenose dolphin
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grampus griseus
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risso's dolphin
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apneustic breathing
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pattern of breath holding
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reniculate kidney
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lobed kidney, this increases cortex and medulla areas
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Iniidae
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family of amazon river dolphins
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aeotiocetidae
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family of ancestral mysticiti which had both baleen and teeth
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hydrodamalis gigas
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stellers sea cow
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tapetum lucidum
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light reflecting layer of neatly orientated collagen fibers found in eyes of some marine mammals
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piscivorous dentition
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teeth made for eating fish
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mustelid
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family of the sea otter
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agorophiidae
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family of anscestral odontocetes
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enaliarctos mealsi
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anscestor of pinnipeds
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ziphius caviorostris
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cuviers beaked whale
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berardius bairdii
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bairds beaked whale
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delphinus delphis
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common dolphin
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globicephala macrorhynchus
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pilot whale
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orcinus orca
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killer whale
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eschrichtius robustus
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gray whale
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balaenoptera musculus
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blue whale
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balaenoptera physalus
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finback whale
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phoca vitulina
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harbor seal
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mirounga angustirostris
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northern elephant seal
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eumetopias jubatus
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stellar sea lion
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phocoenoides dalli
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dall's porpoise
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physeter macrocephalus
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sperm whale
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berardius bairdii
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bairds beaked whale
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balaenoptera brydei
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bryde's whale
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California Sea lion
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Zalophus californianus
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