Families Of Marine Mammals

Question 1

What family includes the polar bear?

Answer 1

Family Ursidae

Question 2

What family includes the sperm whale?

Answer 2

Family Physeteridae

Question 3

Which family has the spermaceti organ, extremely asymmetrical skull, and are very deep divers?

Answer 3

Family Physeteridae

Question 4

Which family includes the pygmy and dwarf sperm whales?

Answer 4

Family Kogiidae

Question 5

Which family composes of deep divers?

Answer 5

Family Kogiidae

Question 6

Which family includes the beaked whales?

Answer 6

Family Ziphiidae

Question 7

Which family might not have teeth that erupt & are seldom seen because they are offshore and deep divers?

Answer 7

Family Ziphiidae

Question 8

Which family includes the Asian and Indian river dolphins?

Answer 8

Family Platanistidae

Question 9

Which family includes the Amazon river dolphin?

Answer 9

Family Innidae

Question 10

Which family includes the extinct Yangtze river dolphin?

Answer 10

Family Lioptidae

Question 11

Which family includes the Franciscana dolphin?

Answer 11

Family Pontoporiidae

Question 12

Which family includes the beluga & narwhal?

Answer 12

Family Monodontidae

Question 13

Which family includes the dolphins, pilot whale & killer whale?

Answer 13

Family Delphinidae

Question 14

Which family has conical teeth, elongated rostrum, falcate (curved, sickle, hooked) dorsal fins?

Answer 14

Family Delphinidae

Question 15

Which family includes the porpoises?

Answer 15

Family Phocoenidae

Question 16

Which family usually has spade shaped teeth, short rostrum, small triangular dorsal fin, and is generally small in size?

Answer 16

Family Phocoenidae

Question 17

Which family includes the right whales?

Answer 17

Family Balaenidae

Question 18

Which family has arch-shaped mouths and long baleen plates?

Answer 18

Family Balaenidae

Question 19

Which family includes the pygmy right whale?

Answer 19

Family Neobalaenidae

Question 20

Which family includes the gray whale?

Answer 20

Family Eschrichtiidae

Question 21

Which family has blunt, rounded heads?

Answer 21

Family Eschrichtiidae

Question 22

Which family includes the rorquals: Minke, sei, Bryde’s, blue, fin, and humpback?

Answer 22

Family Balaenopteridae

Question 23

Which family has ventral pleats?

Answer 23

Family Balaenopteridae

Question 24

Which family contains the manatees?

Answer 24

Family Trichechidae

Question 25

Which family has rounded flukes, flat teeth, and live in the Atlantic or adjacent rivers?

Answer 25

Family Trichechidae

Question 26

Which family contains the dugongs?

Answer 26

Family Dugongidae

Question 27

Which family has split flukes, peg-like teeth, and lives in the Pacific & Indian Oceans?

Answer 27

Family Dugongidae

Question 28

Which family includes the sea otters?

Answer 28

Family Mustelidae

Question 29

Which family contains the sea lions and fur seals?

Answer 29

Family Otariidae

Question 30

Which family contains the true seals?

Answer 30

Family Phocidae

Question 31

Which family contains the walruses?

Answer 31

Family Odobenidae