Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Synonyms: Aliama Gray 1864, Diodon Lesson , Hypodon Haldemann 1841, Petrorhynchus Gray 1865, Ziphiorhynchus Burmeister 1866, Ziphiorrhynchus Burmeister 1866

Full reference: G. Cuvier. 1824. Recherches sur les ossements fossiles 5(1):1-352

Parent taxon: Ziphiinae according to O. Lambert et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Aporotus, Berardini, Choneziphius, Globicetus, Imocetus, Izikoziphius, Tusciziphius

Subtaxa: Ziphius cavirostris, Ziphius compressus

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore