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n. - Type genus of the sperm whales.

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  • The diet of sperm whales (Physeter macrocepahlus Linnaeus 1758) off the Azores.
  • Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the
  • You said that the whalers claim the specimen was "retrieved from the stomach of a sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus," and it was "about 3 m long."
  • Notable marine mammals include blue whale Balaenoptera musculus (E) and sperm whale Physeter catodon, which are occasionally observed, as well as 10 species of dolphin...
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