Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Parent taxon: Mesoplodon according to M. D. Uhen et al. 2008

Alternative combination: Physeter bidens

Synonyms: Aodon dalei Lesson 1828, Delphinus sowerbensis de Blainville 1817, Heterodon dalei Lesson 1827, Mesoplodon sowerbiensis Blainville 1817, Mesoplodon sowerbyi Desmarest 1822, Ziphius micropterus Cuvier 1829

Type specimen: University of Oxford museum, a skeleton. Its type locality is Brodie House, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in the United Kingdom.

Subtaxa: none