Species: Ziphius cavirostris

Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Mammalia

    Order

    Cetacea

    Family

    Ziphiidae

    Genus

    Ziphius

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Zifio de Cuvier - baleine à bec de Cuvier
    Informal Taxonomy
    <p>Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Whales and Dolphins</p>
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae - Ziphius
    Habitat Type Description
    Marine
    Migration
    <p>false - false - false - Seasonal distribution is poorly known; apparently year-round resident in some areas (e.g., off New Zealand, the British Isles, western North America, and Japan) (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983).</p>
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Diet consists mainly of squid and open-ocean, mesopelagic, and deep-water fishes (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983, IUCN 1991).
    Reproduction Comments
    Smallest sexually mature individuals are a little over 5 m long, at which size males are apparently about 11 years old.
    Ecology Comments
    Solitary (adult males) or usually in tight schools of 3-10, sometimes as many as 25 (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983). In the eastern tropical Pacific, group size was 1-7 (IUCN 1991).
    Length
    610
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G4
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1996-11-15
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-11-15
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    Worldwide in all ocean basins from tropical to subpolar waters. Seldom seen alive; known mainly from occasional stranded specimens. Stranded specimens have been recorded from Cape Cod and the North Sea south to Tierra del Fuego and the Cape of Good Hope in the Atlantic, and from the southern Bering Sea south to Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific (the most frequently sighted medium-sized cetacean in the eastern tropical Pacific). Also Mediterranean, Caribbean, Sea of Japan, and Indian Ocean.
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