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The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae

LIST OF SPECIES OF EXISTING ZIPHIOID WHALES.

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Genus MESOPLODON Gervais.

MESOPLODON BIDENS (Sowerby).

North Atlantic Ocean; northern France to Norway and Sweden; Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS (Gervais).

North Atlantic Ocean; English Channel; New Jersey.

MESOPLODON GRAYI Haast.

New Zealand and Chatham Islands; Bahia Nueva, Patagonia (Moreno).

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MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS (Blainville).

Indian Ocean and South Seas; Lord Howe Island; Seychelles Islands; South Africa; Massachusetts(?).

MESOPLODON HECTORI (Gray).

New Zealand.

MESOPLODON BOWDOINI Andrews.

New Zealand.

MESOPLODON LAYARDI (Gray).

South Seas; New Zealand, Chatham Islands; Australia; Cape of Good Hope.

MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI True.

North Pacific Ocean; Bering Island and Oregon.

Genus ZIPHIUS Cuvier.

ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS Cuvier.

Cosmopolitan.

Genus BERARDIUS Duvernoy.

BERARDIUS ARNUXII Duvernoy.

New Zealand.

BERARDIUS BAIRDII Stejneger.

North Pacific Ocean; Bering Island and St. George Island, Bering Sea, to Kiska Harbor, Alaska, and Centerville, California.

Genus HYPEROÖDON Lacépède.

HYPEROÖDON AMPULLATUS Forster.

Arctic and North Atlantic oceans; Mediterranean Sea; southern France; New York Bay, Newport, Rhode Island, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

HYPEROÖDON PLANIFRONS Flower.

Indian and Pacific oceans; Lewis Island, Australia; Province of Buenos Ayres, Argentina, and territories of Chubut and Santa Cruz, Patagonia.

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