Name the Cetaceans Quiz

Common Name	Scientific Name	Translation
False Killer Whale		'false-orca heavy-tooth'
Bryde's Whale		'winged-whale ??'
Amazon River Dolphin		'dolphin of Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire'
Northern Bottlenose Whale		'palate toothed with a bottle'
Blue Whale		'winged-whale - little mouse'
Dwarf Sperm Whale		'proper-name snub-nosed'
Risso's Dolphin		'great-fish grey'
Sperm Whale		'blowpipe big-head'
Short-Finned Pilot Whale		'globe-head big-nose'
Beluga Whale		'dolphin-without-wings white'
Common Dolphin		'dolphin-like dolphin'
Spotted Dolphin		'narrow abbreviated'
Sei Whale		'winged-whale from the north'
Irrawaddy Dolphin		'little-whale short-snout'
Tucuxi		'?? of the river'
Minke Whale		'winged-whale with sharp snout'
Spectacled Porpoise		'porpoise two-eyes'
Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin		'flagon-nose pointed'
Pygmy Sperm Whale		'proper-name short-head'

Common Name	Scientific Name	Translation
Black Right Whale		'the whale of ice'
Finless Porpoise		'new-porpoise porpoise-shaped'
Killer Whale		'whale-like whale'
Commerson's Dolphin		'head-snout of P Commerson'
Spinner Dolphin		'narrow long-snout'
Humpback Whale		'big wings from New England'
Hourglass Dolphin		'flagon-nose crossed'
Fin Whale		'winged-whale with a pipe'
Baird's Beaked Whale		'beveled of SF Baird'
Narwhal		'one-tooth one-horn'
Sowerby's Whale		'middle weapon tooth two-teeth'
Bottle-Nosed Dolphin		'fish-appearance shortened'
Northern Right Whale Dolphin		'smooth-dolphin of the north'
Grey Whale		'Dr. Eschricht's humped creature'
Bowhead Whale		'whale - mustached whale'
Pygmy Right Whale		'wrinkled with edge'
Harbor Porpoise		'porpoise porpoise'
Dall's Porpoise		'porpoise-shaped of WH Dall'
Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin		'under Chinese'

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Created Apr 16, 2012 in Science
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	subhumanfreak:	Apr 17th, 2012 at 10:12 GMT		1 point
	nice but there is a typo on Berardius. Balaena glacialis should be Eubalaena now, Lagenodelphis should be Lagenorhynchus, and Eschrictius gibbosus is now E. robustus.