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Hyperoodon

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Taxonomy
Hyperoodon was named by Lacépède (1804) [type species is Hyperoodon ampullatus]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Hyperoodontidae. It was considered monophyletic by Lambert et al. (2009).

It was synonymized subjectively with Anarnacus by Cope (1890).

It was assigned to Delphinidae by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1863); to Rhynchoceti by Huxley (1864); to Hyperoodontina by Gray (1846), Gray (1864), Gray (1865); to Physeteridae by Scammon and Cope (1869), Newton (1891); to Hyperoodontes by Winge (1921); to Khoufechia by Moore (1968); to Ziphiinae by Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973); to Hyperoodontidae by Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Scott (1873), Hershkovitz (1966), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Ziphiina by Mead and Brownell (2005); to Ziphiidae by Gray (1866), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Loughlin and Perez (1985), Pilleri (1987), Lambert (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Fordyce and Roberts (2009); and to Hyperoodontinae by Muizon (1990), Rice (1998), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci et al. (2007), Lambert et al. (2009), Bianucci et al. (2010), Lambert et al. (2013), Ramassamy (2016), Marx et al. (2016), Lambert and Louwye (2016), Bianucci et al. (2024).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1804Hyperoodon Lacépède
1811Uranodon Illiger p. 143
1817Heterodon Blainville
1825Heterodon Gray p. 340
1825Cetodiodon Jacob p. 72
1830Anodon Wagler
1843Chaenodelphinus Eschricht
1846Hyperoodon Gray p. 25
1850Hyperoodon Gray p. 61
1863Hyperoodon Gray p. 200
1863Lagenocetus Gray p. 200
1864Hyperodon Gray p. 239
1864Lagenocetus Gray p. 241
1864Hyperoodon Huxley p. 395
1865Hyperoodon Gray p. 528
1865Lagenocetus Gray p. 528
1866Hyperoodon Gray p. 328
1866Lagenocetus Gray p. 336
1868Hyperoodon Gray p. 9
1868Lagenocetus Gray p. 9
1869Hyperaodon Scammon and Cope p. 31
1871Hyperoodon Gray p. 96
1871Lagenocetus Gray p. 97
1873Hyperoodon Scott p. 105
1887Hyperoodon Lydekker p. 63
1891Hyperoodon Newton p. 69
1898Hyperoodon Trouessart p. 1058
1904Cetodiodon Palmer p. 174
1904Lagenocetus Palmer p. 360
1904Uranodon Palmer p. 701
1904Hyperoodon Trouessart p. 775
1912Hyperoodon Turner p. 79
1921Hyperoodon Winge p. 44
1925Hyperoodon Zittel p. 86
1928Hyperoodon Weber p. 389
1930Hyperoodon Hay p. 585
1945Hyperoodon Simpson p. 102
1951Hyperoodon Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 722
1960Hyperoodon Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Hyperoodon Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1966Hyperoodon Hershkovitz p. 142
1968Hyperoodon Moore p. 277
1973Hyperoodon Kasuya p. 61
1985Hyperoodon Loughlin and Perez p. 1
1987Hyperoodon Pilleri p. 53
1990Hyperoodon Muizon p. 295
1997Hyperoodon McKenna and Bell p. 382
1998Hyperoodon Rice p. 88
2001Hyperoodon Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2005Hyperoodon Lambert p. 465
2005Hyperoodon Mead and Brownell p. 739
2007Hyperoodon Bianucci et al. p. 578
2008Hyperoodon Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2009Hyperoodon Fordyce and Roberts p. 553
2009Hyperoodon Lambert et al. p. 919 figs. Fig. 10
2010Hyperoodon Bianucci et al. p. 1093 figs. Figure 14
2013Hyperoodon Lambert et al. p. 588 figs. FIgure 14
2016Hyperoodon Lambert and Louwye figs. Figure 3
2016Hyperoodon Marx et al. p. 130
2016Hyperoodon Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17
2024Hyperoodon Bianucci et al. p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
—Amblyoccipita
—Stegoceti
familyZiphiidae
—Vomeroziphii
subfamilyHyperoodontinae
genusHyperoodon

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Hyperoodon Lacépède 1804
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Subg. Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) Moore 1968
Hyperoodon ampullatus Forster 1770 [northern bottlenose whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus diodon Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Delphinus hunteri Gray 1846 [synonym], Hyperoodon borealis Nilsson 1820 [synonym], Hyperoodon butskopf Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Hyperoodon latifrons Gray 1846 [synonym], Hyperoodon rostratum Wesamel 1840 [synonym]
Hyperoodon planifrons Flower 1882 [southern bottlenose whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus hyperoodon Desmarest 1822 [synonym], Hyperoodon burmeisteri Moreno 1888 [synonym]
Invalid names: Anodon Wagler 1830 [synonym], Cetodiodon Jacob 1825 [synonym], Chaenodelphinus Eschricht 1843 [synonym], Heterodon Blainville 1817 [synonym], Lagenocetus Gray 1863 [synonym], Uranodon Illiger 1811 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available