Top Results for Ziphiidae

The spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is a poorly understood species of beaked whale belonging to the family Ziphiidae. It is considered one of the rarest cetaceans in the world, as no live individual has ever been definitively observed in its natural deep-ocean habitat. All existing knowle...

Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii) is the largest species within the beaked whale family, reaching lengths of up to 11.9 meters, and inhabits the deep waters of the North Pacific Ocean. Named after the American naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird, it is characterized by its long, tubular snout...

The northern bottlenose whale is a large species of beaked whale belonging to the family Ziphiidae. It is found exclusively in the cold and temperate waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, where it typically inhabits deep offshore waters and submarine canyons. This species is distinguished by its bulbo...

Blainville's beaked whale is a species of toothed whale belonging to the family Ziphiidae. It is found in tropical and temperate waters across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. This marine mammal is named after Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville and is noted for its dense, heavily ossified j...

Arnoux's beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii) is a large toothed whale in the beaked-whale family Ziphiidae. It inhabits cold waters around Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands, where it is usually observed at sea rather than near shore. The species resembles the Northern Hemisphere Baird's beaked w...

Longman's beaked whale, Indopacetus pacificus, is a poorly known toothed whale in the family Ziphiidae. For much of the twentieth century, scientists recognized the species mainly from two incomplete skulls. Sightings at sea and strandings later provided evidence of living animals in the Indo-Pacifi...

The strap-toothed whale (Mesoplodon layardii) is a beaked whale in the family Ziphiidae found in the Southern Hemisphere. Adult males develop two long, strap-like teeth that grow across the upper jaw and can interfere with how far the mouth opens. The species is associated with deep-water habitat an...

Shepherd's beaked whale is a toothed whale in the family Ziphiidae associated with the Southern Hemisphere. It is distinguished among beaked whales by having a full set of functional teeth in both the upper and lower jaws. The species is also considered data deficient, reflecting limited knowledge o...

Sato’s beaked whale is a toothed whale scientifically known as Berardius minimus. It was recognized as a species distinct from Baird’s beaked whale and formally described in the late 2010s. The species is smaller than Baird’s beaked whale and is known from waters around Japan in the North Pacific. A...

Ramari's beaked whale is the common name for Mesoplodon eueu, a species of beaked whale formally described in 2021. The species was previously confused with True's beaked whale and is known from a small number of specimens and strandings rather than routine observations at sea. Its name honors Ramar...

Sowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens, is a toothed whale in the beaked whale family, Ziphiidae. It was the first mesoplodont described by science, after naturalist James Sowerby examined a skull from a male that stranded in Scotland in 1800 and published the species in 1804. The species lives m...

The southern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon planifrons, is a beaked whale in the family Ziphiidae and the southern counterpart of the northern bottlenose whale. It has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean, spending much of its time in deep water and approaching Antarctic ice during the warmer sea...

Perrin's beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini) is a species of toothed whale belonging to the beaked whale family, Ziphiidae. It was officially identified as a distinct species in 2002 based on five specimens that stranded along the California coastline. The cetacean is named in honor of the American ma...

The ginkgo-toothed beaked whale is an odontocete cetacean in the beaked-whale family Ziphiidae. Adult males are distinguished by broad, flattened teeth whose shape resembles the leaves of the ginkgo tree, while the species is otherwise difficult to study because it spends most of its time offshore....

Gray's beaked whale is a toothed whale in the family Ziphiidae that occurs mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. It was named after British zoologist John Edward Gray and is known for its association with unusually large mass strandings, although its behavior and population status remain poorly documen...

True's beaked whale is a toothed whale in the family Ziphiidae and the genus Mesoplodon. It is a rarely observed species associated with deep offshore waters, where beaked whales are difficult to study because they spend much of their time submerged. The species was described by the American zoologi...

Stejneger's beaked whale, Mesoplodon stejnegeri, is a toothed whale in the beaked-whale family Ziphiidae. It inhabits the North Pacific and is named for Leonhard Stejneger, a Norwegian-American naturalist and zoologist. The species is difficult to study because it spends much of its time offshore an...

Gervais' beaked whale is a small, poorly known toothed whale of the beaked-whale family, Ziphiidae. Its scientific name is Mesoplodon europaeus, and the species is associated with the North Atlantic and nearby warm-temperate waters. It was formally described by the French zoologist Paul Gervais in 1...

Hubbs' beaked whale is a toothed whale in the family Ziphiidae and the genus Mesoplodon. It is a rare species of the North Pacific and was formally described in 1963, with its name honoring the American marine biologist Carl Hubbs. Like other beaked whales, it is a deep-diving cetacean, but its dist...

A tropical Indo-Pacific beaked whale named after Sri Lankan scientist P.E.P. Deraniyagala; synonymized with M. ginkgodens for decades before re-validation as a distinct species in 2014.

The pygmy beaked whale is a poorly known small beaked whale inhabiting tropical and warm temperate waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Andrews' beaked whale is a poorly known toothed whale in the family Ziphiidae. Scientific knowledge of the species comes mainly from stranded or recovered specimens, particularly in the South Pacific and Southern Hemisphere, rather than from extensive observations of living animals. It was named aft...

Hector's beaked whale is a small, poorly known toothed whale of the family Ziphiidae, found in waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It was named after Sir James Hector, a New Zealand naturalist and geologist. The species is difficult to study because beaked whales spend much of their time offshore and...