Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Ziphiidae > Genus Ziphius

Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ziphius*	Cuvier, 1823	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: Cuvier-snoetwalvis

Albanian: balena me sqep; balene me sqep sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Aleut: chumchugagakh; chumchugaiak

Arabic: zifius

Catalan: balena amb bec de Cuvier; balena de Cuvier

Croatian: Cuvierov kit

Dutch: dolfijn van Cuvier; spitssnuitdolfijn van Cuvier

English: Cuvier's beaked whale; goose-beaked whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: baleine à bec de Cuvier; baleine bécune de Cuvier; baleine de Cuvier; ziphius; ziphius cavirostre sources: 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.

German: Cuvier-Schnabelwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: zifiós; Ζιφιός sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: zifyus chalul chartom; זיפיוס sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Indonesian: paus paruh angsa

Italian: zifio

Japanese: akabo kujira; kajippo; アカボウクジラ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: minburi-gorae

Lithuanian: tikrasis snapuotis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Malagasy: trozona manana vavan-gisa; vavan-trozon Cuvier

Maltese: baliena ta'Kuvjer

Polish: zyfia Cuviera sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia bicuda de Cuvier; zifio

Russian: kiuverov kliuvoryl; nastoiashchii kliuvoryl; srednii plavun

Sinhala: hota al thalmaha

Slovenian: Cuvierjev kljunati kit sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballena de Cuvier; ballena gansa; ballena picuda de Cuvier; ballenato de Cuvier; ballenato picudo de Cuvier; cochino de mar; delfin picudo de Cuvier; serpa; zifio comun; zifio de Cuvier; ziphio sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: småhuvudval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: Cuvier balinasi; kaz gagalı balina; Kuvier balinasi; kuvier balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Дзьоборил справжній; Справжній дзьоборил sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil gylfinog Cuvier

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. 5(1): 400pp.
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
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.
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.
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.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
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.
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.
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).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137127