Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Full reference: J. C. Moore. 1968. Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys. Fieldiana: Zoology 53(4):209-298
Parent taxon: Hyperoodontinae according to G. Bianucci et al. 2024
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci et al. 2010, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Lambert 2005, Lambert et al. 2009, Lambert and Louwye 2016, Lambert et al. 2013, Loughlin and Perez 1985, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead 1989, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moore 1968, Muizon 1990, Ramassamy 2016 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Africanacetus, Hyperoodon, Ihlengesi, Khoikhoicetus, Mesoplodon, Pterocetus, Xhosacetus
Subtaxa: Indopacetus pacificus
Type: Indopacetus pacificus
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Maldives (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), Peru (1), Somalia (1), South Africa (2)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.