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Hyperoodon
Lacépède, 1804
- bottle-nosed whales
(mammal)
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Entity:
Hyperoodontinae (Subfamily)
..†Africanacetus (Genus)
..†Ihlengesi (Genus)
..Indopacetus (Genus) - Indo-Pacific beaked whale
..†Khoikhoicetus (Genus)
..Mesoplodon (Genus) - beaked whales
..Hyperoodon (Genus) - bottle-nosed whales
....Hyperoodon ampullatus (Species) - northern bottlenose whale
....Hyperoodon planifrons (Species) - southern bottlenose whale
Authorship
Original name
:
de Lacépède, 1804.
H. N. Cétac.
: xliv, 319-324.
Types
Type of
:
Hyperoodontidae
(Family)
Gray, 1846
Type of
:
Hyperoodontinae
(Subfamily)
Muizon, 1990
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016
: 130.
[inferred]
Type, by synonymy
:
Hyperoodon ampullatus
(Forster, 1770)
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Anodon
(Genus)
Fairmaire, 1871, nom. illeg.
Ref:
PBDB
: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Cetodiodon
(Genus)
Jacob, 1825
Ref:
PBDB
: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Chaenodelphinus
(Genus)
Eschricht, 1843
Ref:
PBDB
: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Heterodon
(Genus)
Latreille, 1801
Ref:
PBDB
: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Lagenocetus
(Genus)
Gray, 1863
Ref:
PBDB
: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous name
:
Uranodon
(Genus)
Illiger, 1811
Ref:
PBDB
: 27 Oct 2013.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
butskoppen
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
bottle-nosed whales
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