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Hyperoodontidae  Gray, 1846
Taxonomic Serial No.: 770799

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Ziphiidae Gray, 1850
  
    Ziphiidae Gray, 1865
  
    Hyperoodontina Gray, 1846
  
  Common Name(s): beaked whales [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2023   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderCetacea Brisson, 1762 – baleines, cétacés, dauphins, mammfères marins, marsouins, baleia, cetáceo, golfinho, cetaceans, whales, dolphins, marine mammals, porpoises  
                                  SuborderOdontoceti Flower, 1867 – toothed whales  
                                     FamilyHyperoodontidae Gray, 1846 – beaked whales  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Genus Berardius Duvernoy, 1851 – giant bottle-nosed whales, giant beaked whales 
                                        Genus Hyperoodon Lacépède, 1804 – bottle-nosed whales, bottlenose whales 
                                        Genus Indopacetus Moore, 1968  
                                        Genus Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850 – beaked whales 
                                        Genus Tasmacetus Oliver, 1937 – Tasmanian beaked whales 
                                        Genus Ziphius G. Cuvier, 1823 – goose-beaked whales 
       

 References
       
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  Source: List of Marine Mammal Species and Subspecies, website (version Aug 2018)  
  Acquired: 2019   
  Notes: Committee on Taxonomy. 2018. List of marine mammal species and subspecies. Society for Marine Mammalogy, www.marinemammalscience.org, consulted on 16 April 2019   
  Reference for: Hyperoodontidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hershkovitz, Philip  
  Publication Date: 1966   
  Article/Chapter Title: Catalog of Living Whales   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: United States National Museum Bulletin, no. 246   
  Page(s): viii + 259   
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  Notes: Available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7869872   
  Reference for: Hyperoodontidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): McKenna, Malcolm C., and Susan K. Bell  
  Publication Date: 1997   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Classification of mammals above the species level   
  Page(s): 631   
  Publisher: Columbia University Press   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-231-11012-X   
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  Reference for: Hyperoodontidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Moore, Joseph Curtis  
  Publication Date: 1968   
  Article/Chapter Title: Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fieldiana: Zoology, vol. 53, no. 4   
  Page(s): iv + 209-298   
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  Reference for: Hyperoodontidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Rice, Dale W.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, no. 4   
  Page(s): ix + 231   
  Publisher: The Society for Marine Mammalogy   
  Publication Place: Lawrence, Kansas, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-891276-03-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hyperoodontidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Würsig, Bernd, J. G. M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2018   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd edition   
  Page(s): xxxi + 1157   
  Publisher: Elsevier   
  Publication Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-12-8043271   
  Notes: Species and classification provided on pages xxix-xxxi   
  Reference for: Hyperoodontidae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Rice (1998:85) used Ziphiidae Gray "1850" [1865!] over Hyperoodontidae Gray 1846 "in anticipation of" an ICZN petition & ruling. As of late 2008 the required application has not been submitted (see ICZN 1999 [4th] Edition Art. 23.9.1, 23.9.3, 23.12, 1985 [3rd] & 1961 [1st] Edition Art. 23b). Hyperoodontiidae is also used in works Rice didn't note (e.g., McKenna & Bell 1997). Mead (email 28-Oct-2008) advises to follow McKenna & Bell on this  
    As of 2023, there has as yet not been an ICZN petition and ruling to conserve Ziphiidae Gray "1850" [1865!] over Hyperoodontidae Gray, 1846; so while the Society for Marine Mammalogy Committee on Taxonomy (2018) and Würsig, Thewissen and Kovacs (2018) use Ziphiidae, ITIS continues to use Hyperoodontidae  
 

 

    

 
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