Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823

Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. 5(1): 400pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52148938
page(s): 350, 352, pl. 7 [details]

Type data

Note A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône,...

From editor or global species database

Type locality A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône, Mediterranean coast, France. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution The distribution of Cuvier's beaked whales is poorly known and is based mainly on stranding records (Leatherwood et al....

Distribution The distribution of Cuvier's beaked whales is poorly known and is based mainly on stranding records (Leatherwood et al. 1976). In the western Atlantic, strandings have been reported from Nova Scotia along the eastern USA coast south to Florida, around the Gulf of Mexico, and within the Caribbean. [details]

Distribution in all oceans

Distribution in all oceans [details]

Taxonomic citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137127 on 2025-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-08-20 11:25:36Z

checked

Perrin, William

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. 5(1): 400pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52148938
page(s): 350, 352, pl. 7 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley. 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors

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context source (PeRMS) Reyes, J. (2009). Ballenas, delfines y otros cetáceos del Perú. Una fuente de información. Lima- Perú. Squema-Ediciones. 160 pp. [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details]

additional source Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Robineau, D. (1989). Les types de cétacés actuels du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle I. Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Kogiidae, Ziphiidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4th ser., 11, section A, no. 1:271-289. [details]

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

additional source Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Holotype Fossilized skull in Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), no. CAC A33554 - CAG B II/222; collected by Raymond Gorsse in 1804. [details]

IUCN Red List Category Least Concern (LC) [details]

Type locality A beach in the Gulf of Fos, Bouches-du-Rhône, Mediterranean coast, France. [details]

Unreviewed

Distribution in all oceans [details]

Habitat from tropics to polar regions, oceanic [details]

Predators None [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Afrikaans	Cuvier-snoetwalvis	[details]
Albanian	balene me sqepbalena me sqep	[details]
Aleut	chumchugaiakchumchugagakh	[details]
Arabic	zifius	[details]
Catalan	balena de Cuvierbalena amb bec de Cuvier	[details]
Croatian	Cuvierov kit	[details]
Dutch	spitssnuitdolfijn van Cuvierdolfijn van Cuvier	[details]
English	goose-beaked whaleCuvier's beaked whale	[details]
French	ziphius cavirostreziphiusbaleine de Cuvierbaleine bécune de Cuvierbaleine à bec de Cuvier	[details]
German	Cuvier-Schnabelwal	[details]
Hebrew	זיפיוסzifyus chalul chartom	[details]
Indonesian	paus paruh angsa	[details]
Italian	zifio	[details]
Japanese	アカボウクジラkajippoakabo kujira	[details]
Korean	minburi-gorae	[details]
Lithuanian	tikrasis snapuotis	[details]
Malagasy	vavan-trozon Cuviertrozona manana vavan-gisa	[details]
Maltese	baliena ta'Kuvjer	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Ζιφιόςzifiós	[details]
Polish	zyfia Cuviera	[details]
Portuguese	zifiobaleia bicuda de Cuvier	[details]
Russian	srednii plavunnastoiashchii kliuvorylkiuverov kliuvoryl	[details]
Sinhala	hota al thalmaha	[details]
Slovenian	Cuvierjev kljunati kit	[details]
Spanish	ziphiozifio de Cuvierzifio comunserpadelfin picudo de Cuviercochino de marballenato picudo de Cuvierballenato de Cuvierballena picuda de Cuvierballena gansaballena de Cuvier	[details]
Swedish	småhuvudval	[details]
Turkish	kuvier balinasıKuvier balinasikaz gagalı balinaCuvier balinasi	[details]
Ukrainian	Справжній дзьоборилДзьоборил справжній	[details]
Welsh	morfil gylfinog Cuvier	[details]