ZIPHIIDAE, Gray, 1850

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Ziphiidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 326-357 : 326

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6608481
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6608475
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scientific name	ZIPHIIDAE
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Family ZIPHIIDAE View in CoL

(BEAKED WHALES)

• Medium-sized whales with spindle-shaped bodies and dorsal fins set two-thirds of the way along the body; adult males of most species have a single pair of tusks for male-male combat, and mostjuveniles and females functionally toothless.

• 400-1200 cm. View Figure

• Cosmopolitan, inhabiting all the world’s oceans. View Figure

• Deep oceanic waters from the ice edges to the tropics.

• 6 genera, 22 species, 22 taxa.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.