What is Odontoceti?
{{Automatic taxobox | name = Toothed whales | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|late Eocene|Present}} | image = Tursiops truncatus 01.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = [[Bottlenose dolphin]] | taxon = Odontoceti | authority = [[William Henry Flower|Flower]], 1869 | subdivision_ranks = [[Family (biology)|Families]] | subdivision = <center>[[#Classification|See text]]</center> | diversity = Around 73 | diversity_link = List of cetaceans }} The '''Odontoceti''' is a [[suborder]] of the [[cetacean]]s. They are the '''toothed whales'''. The Odontoceti includes all the whales which eat prey larger than [[plankton]]. Examples are: [[sperm whale]]s, [[beaked whale]]s, [[dolphin]]s, and others. As the name suggests, the suborder has [[teeth]] rather than the [[baleen]] of [[Mysticeti]] whales. This means they are [[predator]]s of small to large sized prey. The [[Sperm Whale]] ''Physeter'', the [[Killer Whale]] ''Orca'' and the [[Pilot Whale]] ''Globicephala'' all take large prey. By means of co-operation, Killer Whales can take prey larger than themselves, up to and including [[Blue Whale]] calves. Sperm Whales are specialist feeders on [[giant squid]]. There are about 73 species.<ref name=emm>{{ cite book |editor1-last=Perrin |editor1-first=William F. |editor2-last=Wursig |editor2-first=Bernd |editor3-last=Thewissen |editor3-first=J.G M |title=Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals |last= Hooker |first=Sascha K. |edition=2 |page=1173 |publisher=Academic Press |date=2009 |isbn=978-0-12-373553-9 |url=http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716899/description#description }}</ref><ref>Reeves R. ''et al.'' 2003. ''Dolphins, whales, and porpoises''. IUCN Species Survival Commission Specialists Group.</ref> ==Taxonomy== *Superfamily [[Delphinoidea]]; [[Porpoise]]s, [[Dolphin]]s, [[Pilot Whale]]s, [[Killer Whale]]s, [[Narwhal]] *Superfamily [[Inioidea]]: some [[South America]]n river dolphins *Superfamily [[Lipotoidea]]: [[Chinese River Dolphin]] *Superfamily [[Physeteroidea]]: [[Sperm Whale