Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823 
AphiaID: 137127

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Ziphiidae > Ziphius

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Ziphius Cuvier, 1823
Synonymised taxa		Aliama desmarestii Gray, 1864 (synonym) Aliama indica Gray, 1865 (synonym) Delphinorhynchus australis Burmeister, 1865 (synonym) Delphinus desmaresti Risso, 1826 (synonym) Delphinus philippii Cocco, 1846 (synonym) Epiodon australe Burmeister, 1867 (synonym) Epiodon australis Gray, 1871 (synonym) Epiodon chathamiensis Hector, 1873 (synonym) Epiodon cryptodon Gray, 1870 (synonym) Epiodon desmarestii Carus, 1893 (synonym) Epiodon heraultii Gray, 1872 (synonym) Epiodon patachonicum Burmeister, 1867 (synonym) Hyperodon semijunctus Cope, 1865 (synonym) Hyperondon semijunctus Hall & Kelson, 1959 (synonym) Hyperoodon capensis Gray, 1865 (synonym) Hyperoodon desmarestii Gray, 1850 (synonym) Hyperoodon doumetii Gray, 1850 (synonym) Hyperoodon gervaisii Duvernoy, 1851 (synonym) Petrorhynchus capensis Gray, 1865 (synonym) Petrorhynchus indicus Gray, 1865 (synonym) Petrorhynchus mediterraneus Gray, 1871 (synonym) Ziphiorrhynchus cryptodon Burmeister, 1865 (synonym) Ziphius aresques Gray, 1871 (synonym) Ziphius australis Trouessart, 1904 (synonym) Ziphius cavirostris indicus Deraniyagala, 1945 (synonym) Ziphius chatamensis Lahille, 1899 (synonym) Ziphius chathamensis Flower, 1885 (synonym) Ziphius chathamiensis Iredale & Troughton, 1934 (synonym) Ziphius cryptodon Fischer, 1857 (synonym) Ziphius decavirostris Gray, 1871 (synonym) Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejneger, 1883 (synonym) Ziphius indicus Van Beneden, 1863 (synonym) Ziphius novaezealandiae Haast, 1876 (synonym) Ziphius savii Richiardi, 1873 (synonym) Zyphius chathamensis Moreno, 1895 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 2nd ed., 5(1). Paris. page(s): 350, 352, pl. 7 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details] additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [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., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [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. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans Cuvier-snoetwalvis  [details] Albanian balena me sqep  [details] Albanian balene me sqep  [details] Aleut chumchugagakh  [details] Aleut chumchugaiak  [details] Arabic zifius  [details] Catalan balena amb bec de Cuvier  [details] Catalan balena de Cuvier  [details] Croatian Cuvierov kit  [details] Dutch dolfijn van Cuvier  [details] Dutch spitssnuitdolfijn van Cuvier  [details] English Cuvier's beaked whale  [details] English goose-beaked whale  [details] French baleine à bec de Cuvier  [details] French baleine bécune de Cuvier  [details] French baleine de Cuvier  [details] French ziphius  [details] French ziphius cavirostre  [details] German Cuvier-Schnabelwal  [details] Hebrew zifyus chalul chartom  [details] Hebrew זיפיוס  [details] Indonesian paus paruh angsa  [details] Italian zifio  [details] Japanese akabo kujira  [details] Japanese kajippo  [details] Korean minburi-gorae  [details] Lithuanian tikrasis snapuotis  [details] Malagasy trozona manana vavan-gisa  [details] Malagasy vavan-trozon Cuvier  [details] Maltese baliena ta'Kuvjer  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) zifiós  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Ζιφιός  [details] Polish zyfia Cuviera  [details] Portuguese baleia bicuda de Cuvier  [details] Portuguese zifio  [details] Russian kiuverov kliuvoryl  [details] Russian nastoiashchii kliuvoryl  [details] Russian srednii plavun  [details] Sinhala hota al thalmaha  [details] Slovenian Cuvierjev kljunati kit  [details] Spanish ballena de Cuvier  [details] Spanish ballena gansa  [details] Spanish ballena picuda de Cuvier  [details] Spanish ballenato de Cuvier  [details] Spanish ballenato picudo de Cuvier  [details] Spanish cochino de mar  [details] Spanish delfin picudo de Cuvier  [details] Spanish serpa  [details] Spanish zifio comun  [details] Spanish zifio de Cuvier  [details] Spanish ziphio  [details] Swedish småhuvudval  [details] Turkish Cuvier balinasi  [details] Turkish kaz gagalı balina  [details] Turkish Kuvier balinasi  [details] Turkish kuvier balinası  [details] Ukrainian Дзьоборил справжній  [details] Ukrainian Справжній дзьоборил  [details] Welsh morfil gylfinog Cuvier  [details]
All child taxa [hide all]		Subspecies Ziphius cavirostris indicus Deraniyagala, 1945 accepted as Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823
Environment		marine
Distribution		Antarctica [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Italian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Pacific Ocean [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] Tanzania [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] World Oceans [details]
Host of		Pennella crassicornis Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lactobacillus ceti Vela, Fernandez, Espinosa de los Monteros, Goyache, Herraez, Tames, Cruz, Dominguez & Fernandez-Garayzabal, 2008 (unknown) Flavobacterium ceti Vela, Fernandez, Sanchez-Porro, Sierra, Mendez, Arbelo, Ventosa, Dominguez & Fernandez-Garayzabal, 2007 (unknown)
Links		Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (257 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (136 nucleotides; 342 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		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 [details] Habitat: from tropics to polar regions, oceanic  [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] Predators: None [details] Type locality: A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône, Mediterranean coast, France. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 21 bis) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 23:08:49 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 22) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 23:10:07 Ziphius cavirostris added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 23:10:18 Ziphius cavirostris added on 2009-02-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-15 23:10:28 Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded in California added on 2009-04-22 - author: Perrin, William qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-22 20:38:32
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137127
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137127 on 2013-05-26