| Description | 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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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : Ziphius : Ziphius cavirostris |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Ziphiidae : Ziphius : Ziphius cavirostris |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | doubtful |
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Classification
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| Taxon Remarks | Possible variant of Ziphius cavirostris G.Cuvier, 1823 |
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| Generic Name | Ziphius |
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| Common Name | Cuvier's beaked whale |
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| Scientific Name | Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier G., 1832 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated without evidence | Cuvier, 1824 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated with evidence | Turner, 1912 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated without evidence | Oliver, 1922 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated with evidence | Hershkovitz, 1966 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated without evidence | Barnes, 1977 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated with evidence | Mead and Brownell, 2005 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated without evidence | Uhen et al., 2008 | | Ziphius cavirostris | species | belongs to Ziphius | stated with evidence | Ramassamy, 2016 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene |
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| Environment | marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Cetacea) |
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| Diet | piscivore, carnivore (based on Ziphiidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Cetacea) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | G. Cuvier. 1824. Recherches sur les ossements fossiles 5(1):1-352 |
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| Common Name(s) | Cuvier-schnabelwal |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziphius_cavirostris |
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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1824 | Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier p. 352 |
| 1826 | Delphinus desmarestii Risso |
| 1832 | Ziphius cavirostris Meyer p. 99 |
| 1846 | Hyperoodon doumetii Gray p. 26 |
| 1846 | Hyperoodon desmarestii Gray p. 27 |
| 1850 | Hyperoodon doumetii Gray p. 68 |
| 1850 | Hyperoodon desmarestii Gray p. 69 |
| 1851 | Hyperoodon gervaisii Duvernoy p. 49 |
| 1851 | Ziphius cavirostris Duvernoy p. 71 |
| 1852 | Ziphius cavirostris Gervais p. 154 |
| 1859 | Ziphius cavirostris Gervais p. 287 |
| 1863 | Ziphius indicus Van Beneden |
| 1864 | Aliama desmarestii Gray p. 241 |
| 1864 | Ziphius cavirostris Huxley p. 395 |
| 1865 | Delphinorhynchus australis Burmeister |
| 1865 | Hyperoodon semijunctus Cope p. 15 |
| 1865 | Hyperoodon capensis Gray |
| 1866 | Ziphiorrhynchus australis Burmeister |
| 1866 | Ziphiorrhynchus cryptodon Burmeister p. 94 |
| 1866 | Epiodon desmarestii Gray p. 341 |
| 1866 | Petrorhynchus capensis Gray p. 346 |
| 1866 | Petrorhynchus indicus Gray p. 346 |
| 1867 | Ziphius gervaisii Fischer p. 55 |
| 1868 | Epiodon cryptodon Gray p. 9 |
| 1868 | Epiodon desmarestii Gray p. 9 |
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1868 | Petrorhynchus capensis Gray p. 9 |
| 1873 | Epiodon chathamensis Hector |
| 1880 | Ziphius cavirostris Van Beneden and Gervais p. 375 |
| 1883 | Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejneger p. 77 |
| 1885 | Ziphius semijunctus True p. 586 |
| 1889 | Ziphius australis Ameghino p. 888 |
| 1895 | Choneziphius indicus Cope p. 139 |
| 1904 | Ziphius cavirostris Trouessart p. 776 |
| 1904 | Ziphiorrhynchus australis Trouessart p. 777 figs. not figured |
| 1904 | Ziphius australis Trouessart p. 777 figs. not figured |
| 1904 | Ziphius chathamensis Trouessart p. 777 |
| 1904 | Ziphius grebnitzki Trouessart p. 777 |
| 1912 | Ziphius cavirostris Turner p. 77 |
| 1922 | Ziphius cavirostris Oliver p. 576 |
| 1952 | Ziphius cavirostris Sherman p. 99 |
| 1963 | Ziphius cavirostris Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
| 1966 | Ziphius cavirostris Hershkovitz p. 136 |
| 1968 | Ziphius cavirostris Moore p. 276 |
| 1977 | Ziphius cavirostris Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
| 1991 | Ziphius cavirostris Vidal p. 5 |
| 1998 | Ziphius cavirostris Rice p. 86 |
| 2005 | Ziphius cavirostris Mead and Brownell p. 743 |
| 2008 | Ziphius cavirostris Uhen et al. p. 580 |
| 2008 | Ziphius cavirostris Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 215 |
| 2016 | Ziphius cavirostris Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17 |
| Cuvier G. , Recherches sur les ossements fossiles 5 1, 1-352 |
| Meyer H. v. , Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe; Verlag von Siegmund Schmerber, Franfurt am Main, 1-560 |
| Gray J. E. On the cetaceous animals, The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843 1 & 2, 1-53 |
| 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 |
| Duvernoy M. Memoire sure les characteres osteologiques des genres nouveaus ou des especesnouvelles de cetaces vivants out fossiles, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 15, 1-71 |
| Gervais P. , Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] 1–3, 1-274+ |
| Gervais P. , Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises. Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vertébrés dont on Trouve les Ossements Enfouis dans le Sol de la France et sur leur Comparaison aves les Espèces Propres aux Autres Régions du Globe (Deuxième Edition) [French Zoology and Paleontology. New Research on Vertebrate Animals Whose Bones Are Found Buried in the Soil of France and their Comparison with Species Specific to Other Regions of the Globe (Second Edition)], 544 |
| 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 |
| Huxley T. H. On the cetacean fossils termed Ziphius by Cuvier, with a notice of a new species (Belemnoziphius compressus) from the Red Crag, Proceedings of the Geological Society 20, 388-396 |
| Gray J. E. , Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum, 1-402 |
| Gray J. E. , Synopsis of the species of whales and dolphins in the Collection of the British Museum, 1-10 |
| Van Beneden P. J., Gervais P. , Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles, comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux; ainsi que des documents relatifs à leur histoire naturelle, 1-634 |
| Ameghino F. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic], Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6, xxxii-1027 |
| Cope E. D. Fourth contribution to the marine fauna of the Miocene Period of the United States, Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society 34, 135-155 |
| Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929 |
| Sherman H. B. (1952) A list and bibliography of the mammals of Florida, living and extinct, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 15 2, 86-126 |
| Scheffer V. B., Rice D. W. (1963) A list of the marine mammals of the world, United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 431, 1-12 |
| Hershkovitz P. (1966) Catalog of Living Whales, United States National Museum Bulletin 246, 1-259 |
| Moore J. C. (1968) Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys, Fieldiana: Zoology 53 4, 209-298 |
| Barnes L. G. (1977) Outline of eastern North Pacific fossil cetacean assemblages, Systematic Zoology 25 4, 321-343 |
| Vidal O. (1991) Catalog of osteological collections of aquatic mammals from Mexico, NOAA Technical Reports NMFS 97, 1-36 |
| Rice D. W. (1998) Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution, The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4, 1-231 |
| Mead J. G., Brownell R. L. (2005) Order Cetacea, Mammalian Species of the World, 723-743 |
| Uhen M. D., Fordyce R. E., et al (2008) Odontoceti, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II, 566-606 |
| Whitmore F. C., Kaltenbach J. A. (2008) Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina, Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14, 181-269 |
| Ramassamy B. (2016) Description of a new long-snouted beaked whale from the Late Miocene of Denmark: evolution of suction feeding and sexual dimorphism in the Ziphiidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178, 381-409 doi:10.1111/zoj.12418 |
Ziphius cavirostris
