 The colossal octopus: pen and wash drawing by malacologist Pierre Dénys de Montfort, 1801, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola |
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| Mythology | Norse |
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| Grouping | Legendary creature |
| Sub-grouping | Sea monster |
| Country | Greenland |
| Habitat | Greenland Sea |
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| Fareoese stamp of Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Infraorder: | Physeterida |
| Superfamily: | Physeteroidea Gray 1868 |
| Families | |
| Physeteridae Kogiidae | |
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