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Cuvier's beaked whale or the goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), the only member of the genus Ziphius, is the most widely distributed of all the beaked whales. It is one of the most frequently seen beached whales, despite preferring deep pelagic waters, usually deeper than 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2440368	https://www.gbif.org/species/2440368
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36871	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36871

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : Ziphius

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Ziphiidae : Ziphius

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Cetacea	Brisson 1762
-	Pelagiceti	Uhen 2008
-	Neoceti	Fordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborder	Odontoceti	Flower 1867
-	Synrhina	Geisler et al. 2011
family	Ziphiidae	Gray 1850
subfamily	Ziphiinae	Gray 1850
genus	Ziphius	Cuvier 1823

Scientific Name

Ziphius Cuvier, 1823

Name Published In

Rech. Oss. Foss., Nouv. ed. vol.5 p.350

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Hyperoodontina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1846
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Gray, 1850
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Cetacea	stated without evidence	Pictet, 1853
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Gray, 1863
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiina	stated without evidence	Gray, 1865
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Gill, 1871
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1889
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Trouessart, 1898
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Physeteridae	stated without evidence	Palmer, 1904
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Trouessart, 1904
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1945
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Fraser and Purves, 1960
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Scheffer and Rice, 1963
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiina	stated without evidence	Moore, 1968
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Kasuya, 1973
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Barnes, 1977
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Hyperoodontidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Rice, 1998
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Cetacea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Geisler and Sanders, 2003
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Bianucci et al., 2007
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Agnarsson and May-Collado, 2008
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Lambert et al., 2009
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated with evidence	Lambert et al., 2013
Ziphius	genus	belongs to Ziphiinae	stated without evidence	Lambert et al., 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

piscivore, carnivore (based on Ziphiidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Odontoceti)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. Cuvier. 1824. Recherches sur les ossements fossiles 5(1):1-352

Common Name(s)

Cuvier's Beaked Whale, Goose-beaked Whales

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziphius

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ziphius cavirostris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ziphius cavirostris species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Cuvier's Beaked Whale	18	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Ziphius compressus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Ziphiorhynchus Burmeister, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Ziphiorhynchus*
Hyperondon Hall & Kelson, 1959	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Hyperondon*
Xiphius Agassiz, 1846	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Xiphius*
Ziphiorrhynchus Burmeister, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Ziphiorrhynchus*
Hyperodon Cope, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Hyperodon*
Petrorhynchus Gray, 1865	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Petrorhynchus*
Zyphius Moreno, 1895	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Zyphius*
Aliama Gray, 1864	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Aliama*
Epiodon Rafinesque, 1814	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Epiodon*
Epiodon Burmeister, 1867	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Epiodon*
Hypodon Haldeman, 1841	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : *Hypodon*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1814	Epiodon Rafinesque
1824	Ziphius Cuvier p. 350
1841	Hypodon Haldemann p. 127
1846	Ziphius Gray p. 27
1850	Ziphius Gray p. 70
1853	Ziphius Pictet p. 384
1863	Ziphius Gray p. 200
1864	Aliama Gray p. 242
1865	Petrorhynchus Gray p. 524 figs. 2 plates
1865	Aliama Gray p. 528
1865	Epiodon Gray p. 528
1865	Petrorhynchus Gray p. 528
1865	Ziphius Gray p. 529
1866	Ziphiorrhynchus Burmeister p. 94
1866	Epiodon Gray p. 339
1866	Petrorhynchus Gray p. 341
1866	Ziphius Gray p. 348
1868	Epiodon Gray p. 9
1868	Petrorhynchus Gray p. 9
1868	Ziphius Gray p. 10
1871	Ziphius Gill p. 126
1872	Ziphius Gill p. 96
1889	Ziphius Ameghino p. 887
1898	Ziphius Trouessart p. 1061
1904	Epiodon Palmer p. 267
1904	Ziphiorrhynchus Palmer p. 715
1904	Ziphius Palmer p. 716
1904	Ziphius Trouessart p. 776
1912	Ziphius Turner p. 77
1925	Ziphius Zittel p. 86

Year	Name and Author
1928	Ziphius Weber p. 389
1945	Ziphius Simpson p. 102
1951	Ziphius Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 723
1952	Ziphius Sherman p. 99
1960	Ziphius Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963	Ziphius Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1968	Ziphius Moore p. 276
1973	Ziphius Kasuya p. 61
1977	Ziphius Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1990	Ziphius Muizon p. 296
1991	Ziphius Vidal p. 5
1994	Ziphius Bianucci et al. p. 238
1997	Ziphius McKenna and Bell p. 382
1998	Ziphius Rice p. 86
2001	Ziphius Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2002	Ziphius Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Ziphius Geisler and Sanders p. 29
2005	Ziphius Lambert p. 445
2005	Ziphius Mead and Brownell p. 743
2007	Ziphius Bianucci et al. p. 570
2008	Ziphius Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2008	Ziphius Uhen et al. p. 580
2008	Ziphius Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 215
2009	Ziphius Lambert et al. p. 919 figs. Fig. 10
2010	Ziphius Bianucci et al. p. 1093 figs. Figure 14
2013	Ziphius Lambert et al. p. 588 figs. FIgure 14
2016	Ziphius Lambert and Louwye figs. Figure 3
2016	Ziphius Marx et al. p. 130
2016	Ziphius Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17
2018	Ziphius Lambert et al. p. 151

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Gray J. E. , Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea, 1-153

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Gray J. E. On the Cetacea which have been observed in the seas surrounding the British Islands, Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1864, 195-248

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