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Ziphius

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
p. 1828 fig. 123
YearName and author
1814Epiodon Rafinesque
1824Ziphius Cuvier p. 350
1841Hypodon Haldemann p. 127
1846Ziphius Gray p. 27
1850Ziphius Gray p. 70
1853Ziphius Pictet p. 384
1863Ziphius Gray p. 200
1864Aliama Gray p. 242
1865Petrorhynchus Gray p. 524 figs. 2 plates
1865Aliama Gray p. 528
1865Epiodon Gray p. 528
1865Petrorhynchus Gray p. 528
1865Ziphius Gray p. 529
1866Ziphiorrhynchus Burmeister p. 94 figs. Plate III
1866Epiodon Gray p. 339
1866Petrorhynchus Gray p. 341
1866Ziphius Gray p. 348
1868Epiodon Gray p. 9
1868Petrorhynchus Gray p. 9
1868Ziphius Gray p. 10
1871Ziphius Gill p. 126
1872Ziphius Gill p. 96
1889Ziphius Ameghino p. 887
1898Ziphius Trouessart p. 1061
1904Epiodon Palmer p. 267
1904Ziphiorrhynchus Palmer p. 715
1904Ziphius Palmer p. 716
1904Ziphius Trouessart p. 776
1912Ziphius Turner p. 77
1921Xiphius Winge p. 44
1925Ziphius Zittel p. 86
1928Ziphius Weber p. 389
1945Ziphius Simpson p. 102
1951Ziphius Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 723
1952Ziphius Sherman p. 99
1960Ziphius Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Ziphius Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1968Ziphius Moore p. 276
1973Ziphius Kasuya p. 61
1977Ziphius Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1990Ziphius Muizon p. 296
1991Ziphius Vidal p. 5
1994Ziphius Bianucci et al. p. 238
1997Ziphius McKenna and Bell p. 382
1998Ziphius Rice p. 86
2001Ziphius Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2002Ziphius Sepkoski
2003Ziphius Geisler and Sanders p. 29
2005Ziphius Lambert p. 445
2005Ziphius Mead and Brownell p. 743
2007Ziphius Bianucci et al. p. 570
2008Ziphius Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008Ziphius Uhen et al. p. 580
2008Ziphius Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 215
2009Ziphius Lambert et al. p. 919 figs. Fig. 10
2010Ziphius Bianucci et al. p. 1093 figs. Figure 14
2013Ziphius Lambert et al. p. 588 figs. FIgure 14
2016Ziphius Lambert and Louwye figs. Figure 3
2016Ziphius Marx et al. p. 130
2016Ziphius Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17
2018Ziphius Lambert et al. p. 151

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
familyZiphiidae
subfamilyZiphiinae
genusZiphius

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Ziphius Cuvier 1824
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Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier 1824 [Cuvier's beaked whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinorhynchus australis Burmeister 1865 [synonym], Delphinus desmarestii Risso 1826 [synonym], Epiodon chathamensis Hector 1873 [synonym], Epiodon cryptodon Gray 1868 [synonym], Hyperoodon capensis Gray 1865 [synonym], Hyperoodon doumetii Gray 1846 [synonym], Hyperoodon gervaisii Duvernoy 1851 [synonym], Hyperoodon semijunctus Cope 1865 [synonym], Ziphiorrhynchus cryptodon Burmeister 1866 [synonym], Ziphius australis Trouessart 1904 [synonym], Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejneger 1883 [synonym], Ziphius indicus Van Beneden 1863 [synonym]
Ziphius compressus Owen 1870
Invalid names: Aliama Gray 1864 [synonym], Diodon Lesson [synonym], Epiodon Rafinesque 1814 [synonym], Hypodon Haldemann 1841 [synonym], Petrorhynchus Gray 1865 [synonym], Ziphiorrhynchus Burmeister 1866 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. D. Uhen et al. 2008Broad deep cranium with high vertex; broad-based and relatively short toothless rostrum narrowing rapidly forward in posterior half; rostrum densely ossified, with deep prenarial basin, in adult males but not in females; large nasals overhang nares; single apical pair of mandibular teeth (based on True, 1910a, 1913; Heyning 1989b).