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Hace 9 horas · Taxonomy. The narwhal was one of many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 Systema Naturae. An early 1555 drawing by Olaus Magnus depicts a fish-like creature with a horn on its forehead; Magnus later assigned it to "Monocerote". Its name comes from the Old Norse word nár, meaning 'corpse', which possibly refers to the animal's gray, mottled skin and its habit of ...
