an animal that belongs to the Odontoceti or the family of toothed whales, a sub-group of the order Cetacea
adjective
2.
relating to the Odontoceti
The research shows that about eight out of 67 odontocete species - including dolphins- went through a second boost in brainpower about 15 million years ago.
Examples of 'odontocete' in a sentence
odontocete
The role of fishing patterns in explaining between-fisheries variations of probabilities of odontocete interactions was investigated.
Paul Tixier, Paul Burch, Gaetan Richard, Karin Olsson, Dirk Welsford, Mary-Anne Lea,Mark A. Hindell, Christophe Guinet, Anais Janc, Nicolas Gasco, Guy Duhamel, MariaChing Villanueva, Lavinia Suberg, Rhys Arangio, Marta Söffker, John P. Y. Arnould 2019, 'Commercial fishing patterns influence odontocete whale-longline interactions in theSouthern Ocean', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-36389-x. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This contribution deals with the spatial distribution of marine top predators, particularly odontocete and migratory misticete cetaceans.
Lenin E. Oviedo Correa, Juan Diego Pacheco, David Herra Miranda 2011, 'EVALUACIÓN DE LOS RIESGOS DE AFECTACIÓN POR EL ESTABLECIMIENTO DE GRANJAS ATUNERASEN RELACIÓN CON LA DISTRIBUCIÓN ESPACIAL DE CETÁCEOS EN EL GOLFO DULCE, COSTA RICA',Revista Ciencias Marinas y Costerashttp://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/revmar/article/view/248. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)