Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative spellings: Xiphiini, Ziphiina, Ziphiini
Synonyms: Hyperoodontidae Gray 1846, Hyperoodontina Gray 1846, Hyperoodontini Moore 1968
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1850. Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea 1-153
Parent taxon: Stegoceti according to R. W. Boessenecker and J. H. Geisler 2023
See also Abel 1905, Abel 1914, Abel 1919, Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Ameghino 1889, Barnes et al. 1985, Benton 1993, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Berta 2017, Berta et al. 2006, Bianucci 1997, Bianucci et al. 2016, Bianucci et al. 2016, Bianucci et al. 2011, Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci et al. 2010, Bianucci et al. 1994, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bonaparte 1849, Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1895, Dal Piaz 1929, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Flower 1867, Foekens 2008, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gill 1873, Gingerich 2005, Ginsburg and Janvier 1975, Godfrey and Lambert 2023, Gray 1864, Gray 1865, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1871, Gray 1846, Hay 1930, Huxley 1864, Kasuya 1973, Kellogg 1928, Lambert 2005, Lambert et al. 2023, Lambert et al. 2018, Lambert and Louwye 2006, Loughlin and Perez 1985, Lydekker 1887, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Miller 1923, Moore 1968, Morgan 1994, Muizon 1984, Muizon 1990, Norman and Mead 2001, Nowak 1991, Pilleri 1985, Portis 1925, Ramassamy et al. 2018, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Scott 1873, Simpson 1945, Slijper 1936, Trouessart 1898, True 1908, Uhen et al. 2008, Van Deinse 1931, Vidal 1991, Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 and Winge 1921
Sister taxa: Agorophiidae, Platanistidae, Squalodontidae, Squaloziphiidae
Subtaxa: Anarnacinae Anoplonassa Argyrodelphini Belemnoziphius Berardiinae Caviziphius Chavinziphius Choneziphiidae Dioplodon senensis Eboroziphius Indopacetina Mamaziphius Mesoplodon longirostris Mesoplodon tumidirostris Messapicetiformes Nazcacetus Nenga Pelycorhamphus Rhinostodes Rhinostodes lovisatoi Synostodon Tasmacetina Tasmacetus Vomeroziphii Ziphiina Ziphiopsis
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore