Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Belongs to Mesoplodon according to O. Lambert and S. Louwye 2016
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Mead 1989, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moore 1968 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Mesoplodon bidens, Mesoplodon blasiusi, Mesoplodon bononiensis, Mesoplodon bowdoini, 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 specimen: USNM 278031, a skeleton. Its type locality is La Jolla, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in California.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at La Jolla
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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