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クジラ目 (くじらもく[?], Kujira-moku) is Whales — a Japanese food (water animals).
What is Whales?
Kujira-moku refers to cetaceans, which are aquatic mammals constituting the infraorder Cetacea. There are about 89 living species, which are divided into two parvorders. The first parvorder is the toothed whales, which consist of about 70 species, including the dolphin (which includes killer whales), porpoise, beluga whale, narwhal, sperm whale, and beaked whale. The second is the baleen whales, which have a filter-feeder system, and consist of 15 species divided into 3 families, and include the right whale, bowhead whale, rorqual, pygmy right whale, and gray whale.