Whale a large tail fin, and flat heads (with the exception of monodontids and ziphiids). Whale skulls have small eye orbits, long snouts (with the exception of monodontids and ziphiids) and eyes placed on the sides of its head. Whales range in size from the and dwarf sperm whale to the and blue whale. Overall, they tend to dwarf other cetartiodactyls; the blue whale is the largest creature on earth. Several species have female-biased sexual dimorphism, with the females being larger than the males. One exception is with the sperm whale, which has males larger than the females. Odontocetes, such as
Mesoplodont whale what effect this has on the population. Longman's beaked whale ("Indopacetus pacificus", also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale or the tropical bottlenose whale) was originally assigned to "Mesoplodon", but Joseph Curtis Moore placed it in its own genus, "Indopacetus", a taxonomic assignment which has been followed by all researchers. Two extinct species of "Mesoplodon" are known, "M. posti" and "M. slangkopi". Mesoplodont whale Mesoplodont whales are fifteen species of toothed whale in the genus Mesoplodon, making it the largest genus in the cetacean order. Two species were described as recently as 1991 (pygmy beaked whale) and 2002 (Perrin's beaked