- Recently,[when?] a
large fossil ziphiid sample was
discovered off the
South African coast,
confirming the
extant ziphiid diversity might just be a remnant...
- a
bluff melon and a long, dolphin-like beak. It is the only
species of
ziphiid with a full set of
functional teeth (17 to 27
pairs in both the
upper and...
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bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon planifrons) is a
species of whale, in the
ziphiid family, one of two
members of the
genus Hyperoodon.
Seldom observed, the...
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bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) is a
species of
beaked whale in the
ziphiid family,
being one of two
members of the
genus Hyperoodon. The northern...
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exception of
monodontids and
ziphiids).
Whale skulls have
small eye orbits, long
snouts (with the
exception of
monodontids and
ziphiids) and eyes
placed on the...
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Mesoplodont whales are 16
species of
toothed whale in the
genus Mesoplodon,
making it the
largest genus in the
cetacean order. Two
species were described...
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Dagonodum is an
extinct genus of
ziphiid cetacean known from
Tortonian age
marine deposits in the Gram
Formation in Denmark.
There is only one
known species...
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member being the
extinct Ziphius compressus. Uniquely, no
other species of
ziphiid cetacean develops such
dense rostral ossification of its
prenarial basin...
- The
tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also
known as the Indo-Pacific
beaked whale or Longman's
beaked whale, was
considered to be the...
- Baird's
beaked whale (Berardius bairdii), also
known as the
northern giant bottlenose whale,
North Pacific bottlenose whale,
giant four-toothed whale,...
