Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770) 
AphiaID: 343899

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Hyperoodon Lacépède, 1804
Synonymised taxa		Balaena ampullata Forster, 1770 (basionym) Balaena rostrata Mueller, 1776 (synonym) Cetodiodon hunteri Jacob, 1825 (synonym) Delphinus (Chaenodelphinus) edentulus Wagner, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus bidens Shaw, 1801 (synonym) Delphinus bidentatus Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym) Delphinus butskode Blainville, in Demarest, 1817 (synonym) Delphinus butskopf Bonnaterre, 1789 (synonym) Delphinus chemnitzianus Blainville, in Demarest, 1817 (synonym) Delphinus diodon Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Delphinus edentulus Schreber, 1802 (synonym) Delphinus hunteri Desmarest, 1822 (synonym) Delphinus hyperoodon Desmarest, 1822 (synonym) Hyperadon bidens J. A. Allen, 1869 (synonym) Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus (Forster, 1770) Hyperoodon baussardi Duvernoy, 1851 (synonym) Hyperoodon bidens Fleming, 1828 (synonym) Hyperoodon borealis Nilsson, 1820 (synonym) Hyperoodon butskopf Lacépède, 1804 (synonym) Hyperoodon butzkoff Beddard, 1900 (misspelling) Hyperoodon butzkopf F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym) Hyperoodon honfloriensis Lesson, 1828 (synonym) Hyperoodon latifrons Gray, 1846 (synonym) Hyperoodon quadridens Burguet, 1843 (synonym) Hyperoodon rostratum Van Beneden, 1888 (synonym) Hyperoodon rostratus Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym) Lagenocetus latifrons Gray, 1863 (synonym) Lagocetus latifrons Gray, 1866 (misspelling)
Sources		original description: Forster. (1770). In Kalm, Travels into North America 1:18, ftn. [details] basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (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] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Czech anarnak zobatý  [details] Danish dögling  [details] Danish døgling  [details] Danish naebhval  [details] Dutch butskop  [details] English bottle-head  [details] English bottlie  [details] English common bottlenose whale  [details] English flounder's head  [details] English North Atlantic bottle-nosed whale  [details] English northern bottlenose whale  [details] English northern bottle-nosed whale  [details] Faroese döglink  [details] French baleine à bec  [details] French dauphin de Honfleur  [details] French grand souffleur à bec d'oie  [details] French hyperodon arctique  [details] French hyperoodon boréal  [details] French hyperoodon butzkopf  [details] German Butskopf  [details] German Dögling  [details] German Entenwal  [details] Icelandic andarnefia  [details] Icelandic andhvaler  [details] Icelandic döglingur  [details] Italian iperodonte boreale  [details] Japanese kita-tokkuri-kuzira  [details] Kalaallisut anarnak  [details] Lithuanian aukštakaktis snapuotis  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Υπερωόδοντας του Βορά  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Υπερωόδοντας του Βορρά  [details] Norwegian andehval  [details] Norwegian bottlenosen  [details] Norwegian naebhval  [details] Norwegian nebhval  [details] Norwegian stub  [details] Norwegian Bokmål bottlenose  [details] Norwegian Bokmål nebbhval  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk bottlenose  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk nebbkval  [details] Polish dogling północny  [details] Russian butylkonos  [details] Russian бутылконос высоколобый  [details] Slovenian severni račji kit  [details] Spanish ballena nariz de botella del norte  [details] Spanish calderón boreal  [details] Spanish hocico de botella  [details] Swedish nabbad gomtand  [details] Swedish näbbval  [details] Turkish kuzey ördek balinası  [details] Ukrainian Високочолий пляшконіс  [details] Ukrainian північний пляшконіс  [details] Ukrainian Пляшконіс високочолий  [details] Ukrainian Пляшконіс північний  [details] Welsh morfil trwyn potel  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Arctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Northern North Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Schouwen (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Shetlands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of		Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links		To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 39 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Diet: squid, some fish (herring, cuttlefish) and invertebrates (sea cucumbers, sea stars) [details] Dimensions: Length: male 24-32' (7.3-9.8 m), female 19-28 1/2' (5.8-8.7 m), at birth 11 1/2' (3.5 m); Weight: 5800-7500 kg [details] Distribution: Northern East and West Atlantic Ocean  [details] Habitat: deep waters offshore [details] Habitat: cold temperate to subarctic, oceanic [details] Holotype: None designated. Name based on the bottle-nosed whales seen at sea by Kalm "everywhere in the ocean from the channel to the very neighborhood of America," and, basically, on Pennant's description of Dale's "bottle-head whale" found stranded in 1717. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Morphology:  Varied in color, ranging from greenish-brown to chocolate and gray. Individuals may be mottles with patches of grayish-white. Coloration is generally lighter on the flanks and underbelly, fading to a white or cream color.The beak is short and cylindrical, resembling a bottle in shape. Both sexes have large, protruding melons that are often vertical anteriorly in older animals and turn yellowish-white with age in males. The melon of the female is not as prominent as that of the male.The posteriorly-curved dorsal fin is 30-38cm in height and is located at a distance of 1/3 the total body length from the tail. The tail flukes lack a medial notch, and the flippers are small and pointed. [details] Predators: None [details] Reproduction: Mating believed to be polygynous with a single male assoiciating with a group of females during the mating season. Females mature sexually at 8-14 years and males at 7-9 years. Mating occurs in spring and early summer and calves are born from April to June. Gestation is about 12 months and weaning is at around one year. [details] Type locality: Maldon, Essex, England, the locale of Dale's (1732)specimen. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 18) added on 2008-06-02 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:41:42 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 19) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:41:50 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 43) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:42:00 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 63) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:42:08 Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:50:22 Northern bottlenose whale added on 2011-02-10 - author: Hilary Moors () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:50:33 Northern bottlenose whales spyhopping added on 2011-02-10 - author: Hilary Moors () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:50:43 Northern bottlenose whales - dorsal fins added on 2011-02-10 - author: Hilary Moors () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-03-29 22:51:03
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:343899
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-04-11 11:37:23Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William 2009-04-01 16:57:11Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770). 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=343899 on 2013-05-22