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HYPEROODONTINAE Gray, 1866

Bianucci, Giovanni, Lambert, Olivier & Post, Klaas, 2007, A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa, Geodiversitas 29 (4), pp. 561-618 : 578

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4651080

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DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4650933

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scientific name

 HYPEROODONTINAE Gray, 1866
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Subfamily HYPEROODONTINAE Gray, 1866

TYPE GENUS. — Hyperoodon Lacépède, 1804 .

OTHER GENERA INCLUDED. — Indopacetus Moore, 1968 , Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850 , Ihlengesi n. gen., Africanacetus n. gen., and Khoikhoicetus n. gen.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Hyperoodontinae differ from all the other Ziphiidae in the deep anteromedian excavation of the nasals.

DISCUSSION

Hyperoodontinae as defined here follows the content of the subfamily suggested by Muizon (1991); they correspond neither to the tribe Hyperoodontini sensu Moore 1968 , including Hyperoodon View in CoL , Indopacetus View in CoL , Mesoplodon View in CoL , and Tasmacetus View in CoL nor to the subtribe Hyperoodontina sensu Moore 1968 , only including Hyperoodon View in CoL and Mesoplodon View in CoL .

MOORE J. C. 1968. - Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales. Fieldiana: Zoology 53 (4): 209 - 298.

MUIZON C. DE 1991. - A new Ziphiidae (Cetacea) from the early Miocene of Washington State (USA) and phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of odontocetes. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle ser. 4, sect. C, 12 (3 - 4): 279 - 326.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Ziphiidae

Specimens