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 Hyperoodon

Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Balaena Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hyperoodon*	Lacépède, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus*	(Forster, 1770)	synonym; alternate representation

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Czech: anarnak zobatý

Danish: dögling; døgling; naebhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: butskop

English: bottle-head; bottlie; common bottlenose whale; flounder's head; North Atlantic bottle-nosed whale; northern bottlenose whale; northern bottle-nosed whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

Faroese: döglink

French: baleine à bec; dauphin de Honfleur; grand souffleur à bec d'oie; hyperodon arctique; hyperoodon boréal; hyperoodon butzkopf

German: Butskopf; Dögling; Entenwal

Greek: Υπερωόδοντας του Βορά; Υπερωόδοντας του Βορρά sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: andarnefia; andhvaler; döglingur

Italian: iperodonte boreale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: kita-tokkuri-kuzira

Kalaallisut: anarnak

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

Norwegian: andehval; bottlenosen; naebhval; nebhval; stub

Norwegian Bokmål: bottlenose; nebbhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: bottlenose; nebbkval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: dogling północny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: butylkonos; бутылконос высоколобый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: severni račji kit sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballena nariz de botella del norte; calderón boreal; hocico de botella sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: nabbad gomtand; näbbval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kuzey ördek balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Високочолий пляшконіс; північний пляшконіс; Пляшконіс високочолий; Пляшконіс північний sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil trwyn potel

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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	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	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
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

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770). 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:343899