AnAge entry for Cetacea
Classification (HAGRID: 01927)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
- Order
- Cetacea (Browse taxon)
- Common name
- Cetaceans
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Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Observations
Longevity records concerning cetaceans are considered somewhat unreliable because very few of these animals have been studied in captivity, and records are often fragmentary. Nonetheless, cetaceans appear to be typically long-lived with several estimates of animals living over a century.
References
- [1152] Sierra et al. (2013), Muscular senescence in cetaceans: adaptation towards a slow muscle fibre phenotype (PubMed)
- [0443] Ronald Nowak (2003), Walker's Marine Mammals of the World
- [0002] Caleb Finch (1990), Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome
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- ITIS 180403
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