beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)

Query: monodontidae

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Subject:	beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)
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White Whale, or Beluga
Delphinapterus catodon (L.) Gill

Author Henry Wood Elliott (1846–1930)
Subject: White whale
Tag: Aquatic Mammals
Date 1884
Source/Photographer
English: George Brown Goode (1884) Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States: Section I, Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals, Plates, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_50840_White_Whale,_or_Beluga.jpeg

The beluga whale or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean of the family Monodontidae. This white whale is also known as the beluga, melonhead, or sea canary.

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