Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Full reference: P. E. P. Deraniyagala. 1963. A new beaked whale from Ceylon. Ceylon Today 12(3):13-14
Belongs to Mesoplodon according to O. Lambert and S. Louwye 2016
See also Dalebout et al. 2014, Deraniyagala 1963, Mead and Brownell 2005 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Mesoplodon bidens, Mesoplodon bononiensis, Mesoplodon bowdoini, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, Mesoplodon danconae, Mesoplodon densirostris, Mesoplodon eueu, Mesoplodon europaeus, Mesoplodon ginkgodens, Mesoplodon grayi, Mesoplodon hectori, Mesoplodon lawleyi, Mesoplodon layardii, Mesoplodon longirostris, Mesoplodon medilineatus, Mesoplodon meneghinii, Mesoplodon mirus, Mesoplodon perrini, Mesoplodon peruvianus, Mesoplodon posti, Mesoplodon slangkopi, Mesoplodon stejnegeri, Mesoplodon traversii, Mesoplodon tumidirostris, Ziphius gibbus, Ziphius tenuirostris, Ziphius (Dolichodon) geelongensis
Type specimen: CM 3W, a skeleton. Its type locality is Ratmalana, which is in a Holocene marine horizon in Sri Lanka.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ratmalana
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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