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Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Taxonomy
Ziphius cavirostris was named by Cuvier (1824) [No type specimen number is listed by Hershkovitz (1966).]. It is extant. Its type specimen is MNHN, no number, a skull. Its type locality is Fos, which is in a Pleistocene coastal horizon in France.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1824Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier p. 352
1826Delphinus desmarestii Risso
1832Ziphius cavirostris Meyer p. 99
1846Hyperoodon doumetii Gray p. 26
1846Hyperoodon desmarestii Gray p. 27
1850Hyperoodon doumetii Gray p. 68
1850Hyperoodon desmarestii Gray p. 69
1851Hyperoodon gervaisii Duvernoy p. 49
1851Ziphius cavirostris Duvernoy p. 71
1852Ziphius cavirostris Gervais p. 154
1859Ziphius cavirostris Gervais p. 287
1863Ziphius indicus Van Beneden
1864Aliama desmarestii Gray p. 241
1864Ziphius cavirostris Huxley p. 395
1865Delphinorhynchus australis Burmeister
1865Hyperodon semijunctus Cope p. 280
1865Hyperoodon semijunctus Cope p. 280
1865Hyperoodon capensis Gray
1866Ziphiorrhynchus australis Burmeister
1866Ziphiorrhynchus cryptodon Burmeister p. 94
1866Epiodon desmarestii Gray p. 341
1866Petrorhynchus capensis Gray p. 346
1866Petrorhynchus indicus Gray p. 346
1867Ziphius gervaisii Fischer p. 55
1868Epiodon cryptodon Gray p. 9
1868Epiodon desmarestii Gray p. 9
1868Petrorhynchus capensis Gray p. 9
1873Epiodon chathamensis Hector
1880Ziphius cavirostris Van Beneden and Gervais p. 375
1883Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejneger p. 77
1885Ziphius semijunctus True p. 586
1889Ziphius australis Ameghino p. 888
1895Choneziphius indicus Cope p. 139
1904Ziphius cavirostris Trouessart p. 776
1904Ziphiorrhynchus australis Trouessart p. 777 figs. not figured
1904Ziphius australis Trouessart p. 777 figs. not figured
1904Ziphius chathamensis Trouessart p. 777
1904Ziphius grebnitzki Trouessart p. 777
1912Ziphius cavirostris Turner p. 77
1922Ziphius cavirostris Oliver p. 576
1952Ziphius cavirostris Sherman p. 99
1963Ziphius cavirostris Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1966Ziphius cavirostris Hershkovitz p. 136
1968Ziphius cavirostris Moore p. 276
1977Ziphius cavirostris Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1991Ziphius cavirostris Vidal p. 5
1998Ziphius cavirostris Rice p. 86
2005Ziphius cavirostris Mead and Brownell p. 743
2008Ziphius cavirostris Uhen et al. p. 580
2008Ziphius cavirostris Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 215
2016Ziphius cavirostris Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
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)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
familyZiphiidae
subfamilyZiphiinae
genusZiphius
speciescavirostris

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.

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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available