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    Cetaceans : Large Sea Animals / by Fortenberry, Karmen, author 648765

    Published 2012
    “…The order Cetaces includes the marine mammals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean "whale"; its original meaning, "large sea animal", was more general. …”
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    Mammals (Class of Air-breathing Vertebrate Animals) / by Galindo, Jovan, author 648804

    Published 2012
    “…Mammals range foot) Blue Whale in size from the 30-40 millimeter (1- to 1.5-inch) Bumblebee Bat to the 33-meter (108 Depending on classification scheme, there are approximately 5,500 species (5,490, according to the IUCN Red List) of mammals, distributed in about 1,200 genera, 153 families, 29 orders divided into three infraclasses in two subclasses: the monotremes of the subclass Prototheria, and the marsupials and placentals or the subclass Theria. …”
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    Tetrapods (Class of Vertebrate) / by Muniz, Larry, author 648579

    Published 2012
    “…Some groups have even returned to an aquatic existence, including the largest animal known, the blue whale. The evolution of the first tetrapods marked the moment when the two basic forms of vertebrates, fishes and tetrapods, diverged. …”
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    All About Sharks / by Earls, Eve, author 648687

    Published 2012
    “…Since that time, sharks have diversified into 440 species, ranging in size from the small dwarf lanternshark, Etmopterus perryi, a deep sea species of only 17 centimeters (6.7 in) in length, to the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, the largest fish, which reaches approximately 12 meters (39 ft 4 in) and which feeds only on plankton, squid, and small fish by filter feeding. …”
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    Vertebrate Animals / by Allman, Ivy author 648823

    Published 2012
    “…Extant vertebrates range in size from the carp species Paedocypris, at as little as 7.9 mm (0.3 inch), to the Blue Whale, at up to 33 m (110 ft). Vertebrates make up about 5% of all described animal species; the rest are invertebrates, which lack backbones. …”
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