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