Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative combination: Physeter bidens
Synonyms: Aodon dalei Lesson 1828, Delphinorhynchus micropterus Cuvier 1829, Delphinorhynchus sowerbyi Desmarest 1822, Delphinus dalei Lesson 1827, Delphinus micropterus Cuvier 1829, Delphinus sowerbensis de Blainville 1817, Delphinus sowerbiensis Blainville 1817, Delphinus sowerbyi Desmarest 1822, Heterodon dalei Lesson 1827, Mesodiodon micropterum Cuvier 1829, Mesoplodon sowerbensis Blainville 1817, Mesoplodon sowerbiensis Blainville 1817, Mesoplodon sowerbyi Desmarest 1822, Micropteron micropterus Cuvier 1829, Micropteron sowerbiensis Blainville 1817, Ziphius micropterus Cuvier 1829, Ziphius sowerbensis Blainville 1817, Ziphius sowerbiensis Blainville 1817, Ziphius sowerbii Blainville 1817
Belongs to Mesoplodon according to I. Agnarsson and L. J. May-Collado 2008
See also Duvernoy 1851, Fischer 1829, Gervais 1850, Gervais 1852, Gray 1846, Gray 1850, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1846, Hay 1902, Hershkovitz 1961, Hershkovitz 1966, Huxley 1864, Mead 1989, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moore 1968, Owen 1870, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Scott 1873, Sowerby 1804, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Uhen et al. 2008 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
Sister taxa: Mesoplodon blasiusi, Mesoplodon bononiensis, Mesoplodon bowdoini, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, Mesoplodon danconae, Mesoplodon densirostris, Mesoplodon eueu, Mesoplodon europaeus, Mesoplodon ginkgodens, Mesoplodon grayi, Mesoplodon hectori, Mesoplodon hotaula, Mesoplodon lawleyi, Mesoplodon layardii, Mesoplodon medilineatus, Mesoplodon meneghinii, Mesoplodon mirus, Mesoplodon perrini, Mesoplodon peruvianus, Mesoplodon posti, Mesoplodon slangkopi, Mesoplodon stejnegeri, Mesoplodon traversii, Ziphius gibbus, Ziphius tenuirostris
Type specimens:
- Mesoplodon bidens: University of Oxford museum, a skeleton. Its type locality is Brodie House, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in the United Kingdom.
- Aodon dalei:
- Delphinus micropterus:
- Delphinus sowerbensis:
- Heterodon dalei:
- Mesoplodon sowerbiensis:
- Mesoplodon sowerbyi:
Distribution: found only at Brodie House
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