Ziphius cavirostris
G. Cuvier, 1823
Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Distribution :
Worldwide: cold-temperate to tropical waters.
Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 3770
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Artiodactyla |
| Suborder | : Cetacea |
| Infraorder | : Odontoceti |
| Superfamily | : Ziphioidea |
| Family | : Ziphiidae |
| Subfamily | : Ziphiinae |
| Genus | : Ziphius |
Species status
Authority citation
Cuvier, G. 1823-12-20. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. Nouvelle édition. Tome cinquième, Ire. partie. G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne, Paris, 405 pp.
Authority publication link
Original name as described
ziphius cavirostris
Other common names
Goose-beaked Whale · Goosebeak Whale
Type material
MNHN-ZM-AC-A3554
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
France, "dans le département des Bouches-du-Rhône, entre de Fos et l'embouchure du Galégeon" (= between Fos and the mouth of the Galégeon River).
Biogeographic realm
Marine
Country distribution
Albania · American Samoa · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Benin · Bermuda · Bonaire · Brazil · British Virgin Islands · Brunei · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada · Cape Verde · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Cote d'Ivoire · Croatia · Cuba · Curaçao · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Denmark · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · East Timor · Ecuador · El Salvador · Equatorial Guinea · Falkland Islands · Fiji · France · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Gabon · Gambia · Germany · Ghana · Greece · Grenada · Guadeloupe · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · India · Indonesia · Iran · Ireland · Italy · Jamaica · Japan · Kenya · Kiribati · Kuwait · Liberia · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mexico · Micronesia · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Namibia · Nauru · Netherlands · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Nigeria · Niue · Northern Marianas · Norway · Oman · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Pitcairn · Portugal · Puerto Rico · Republic of the Congo · Russia · Saba · Saint Helena · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Singapore · Sint Eustatius · Sint Maarten · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · South Korea · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Suriname · Sweden · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · Togo · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · United Kingdom · United States · United States Virgin Islands · Uruguay · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen · Algeria? · Angola? · Antarctica? · Belgium? · Bosnia and Herzegovina? · Cyprus? · Egypt? · Eritrea? · Iceland? · Israel? · Lebanon? · Libya? · Malta? · Mauritius? · Mayotte? · Montenegro? · Montserrat? · Norfolk Island? · North Korea? · Palestine? · Qatar? · Réunion? · Saudi Arabia? · Slovenia? · Syria? · São Tomé and Príncipe? · Tokelau? · Tunisia? · Turkey? · Turks and Caicos Islands? · Tuvalu? · United Arab Emirates?
Subregion distribution
USA(AK, CA, HI, AL?, CT?, DC?, DE?, FL?, GA?, LA?, MA?, MD?, MI?, NC?, NJ?, NY?, OR?, RI?, SC?, TX?, VA?, WA?)
Distribution notes
Wide distribution, but mostly in deeper oceanic waters, generally rare sightings and strandings. May be resident population off of NC.
Distribution references
Stanistreet, J.E., Nowacek, D.P., Baumann-Pickering, S., Bell, J.T., Cholewiak, D.M., Hildebrand, J.A., Hodge, L.E.W., Moors-Murphy, H.B., Van Parijs, S.M. and Read, A.J. 2017. Using passive acoustic monitoring to document the distribution of beaked whale species in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(12):2098-2109. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2016-0503 · Foley, H.J. 2018. Spatial ecology and movement patterns of deep-diving odontocetes in the western North Atlantic. MSc thesis, North Carolina State University, 117 pp. a#72143
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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Names and synonyms
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