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Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823

137127  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137127)

accepted
Species
Aliama desmarestii Gray, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Aliama indica Gray, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus desmaresti Risso, 1826 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus philippii Cocco, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon australe Burmeister, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon australis Gray, 1871 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon chathamiensis Hector, 1873 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon cryptodon Gray, 1870 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon desmarestii Carus, 1893 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon heraultii Gray, 1872 · unaccepted (synonym)
Epiodon patachonicum Burmeister, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hyperodon semijunctus Cope, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hyperoodon capensis Gray, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hyperoodon desmarestii Gray, 1850 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hyperoodon doumetii Gray, 1850 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hyperoodon gervaisii Duvernoy, 1851 · unaccepted (synonym)
Petrorhynchus capensis Gray, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Petrorhynchus indicus Gray, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius aresques Gray, 1871 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius australis Trouessart, 1904 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius chatamensis Lahille, 1899 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius chathamensis Flower, 1885 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius cryptodon Fischer, 1857 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius decavirostris Gray, 1871 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejneger, 1883 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius indicus Van Beneden, 1863 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius novaezealandiae Haast, 1876 · unaccepted (synonym)
Ziphius savii Richiardi, 1873 · unaccepted (synonym)
Zyphius chathamensis Moreno, 1895 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. 5(1): 400pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52148938
page(s): 350, 352, pl. 7 [details]   
Note A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône,...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône, Mediterranean coast, France. [details]
Distribution The distribution of Cuvier's beaked whales is poorly known and is based mainly on stranding records (Leatherwood et al....  
Distribution The distribution of Cuvier's beaked whales is poorly known and is based mainly on stranding records (Leatherwood et al. 1976). In the western Atlantic, strandings have been reported from Nova Scotia along the eastern USA coast south to Florida, around the Gulf of Mexico, and within the Caribbean. [details]

Distribution in all oceans  
Distribution in all oceans [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137127 on 2024-03-19
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original description Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. 5(1): 400pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52148938
page(s): 350, 352, pl. 7 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details]   

additional source Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]   

additional source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]   

additional source Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Robineau, D. (1989). Les types de cétacés actuels du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle I. Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Kogiidae, Ziphiidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4th ser., 11, section A, no. 1:271-289. [details]   

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]   

additional source Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution The distribution of Cuvier's beaked whales is poorly known and is based mainly on stranding records (Leatherwood et al. 1976). In the western Atlantic, strandings have been reported from Nova Scotia along the eastern USA coast south to Florida, around the Gulf of Mexico, and within the Caribbean. [details]

Holotype Fossilized skull in Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), no. CAC A33554 - CAG B II/222; collected by Raymond Gorsse in 1804. [details]

IUCN Red List Category Least Concern (LC) [details]

Type locality A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône, Mediterranean coast, France. [details]

From other sources
Distribution in all oceans [details]

Habitat from tropics to polar regions, oceanic  [details]

Predators None [details]
LanguageName 
Afrikaans Cuvier-snoetwalvis  [details]
Albanian balene me sqepbalena me sqep  [details]
Aleut chumchugaiakchumchugagakh  [details]
Arabic zifius  [details]
Catalan balena de Cuvierbalena amb bec de Cuvier  [details]
Croatian Cuvierov kit  [details]
Dutch spitssnuitdolfijn van Cuvierdolfijn van Cuvier  [details]
English goose-beaked whaleCuvier's beaked whale  [details]
French ziphius cavirostreziphiusbaleine de Cuvierbaleine bécune de Cuvierbaleine à bec de Cuvier  [details]
German Cuvier-Schnabelwal  [details]
Hebrew זיפיוסzifyus chalul chartom  [details]
Indonesian paus paruh angsa  [details]
Italian zifio  [details]
Japanese アカボウクジラkajippoakabo kujira  [details]
Korean minburi-gorae  [details]
Lithuanian tikrasis snapuotis  [details]
Malagasy vavan-trozon Cuviertrozona manana vavan-gisa  [details]
Maltese baliena ta'Kuvjer  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Ζιφιόςzifiós  [details]
Polish zyfia Cuviera  [details]
Portuguese zifiobaleia bicuda de Cuvier  [details]
Russian srednii plavunnastoiashchii kliuvorylkiuverov kliuvoryl  [details]
Sinhala hota al thalmaha  [details]
Slovenian Cuvierjev kljunati kit  [details]
Spanish ziphiozifio de Cuvierzifio comunserpadelfin picudo de Cuviercochino de marballenato picudo de Cuvierballenato de Cuvierballena picuda de Cuvierballena gansaballena de Cuvier  [details]
Swedish småhuvudval  [details]
Turkish kuvier balinasıKuvier balinasikaz gagalı balinaCuvier balinasi  [details]
Ukrainian Справжній дзьоборилДзьоборил справжній  [details]
Welsh morfil gylfinog Cuvier  [details]