Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Belongs to Mesoplodon according to O. Lambert and S. Louwye 2016
See also Hershkovitz 1966, Mead 1989, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moore 1968, Oliver 1922 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Mesoplodon bidens, Mesoplodon bononiensis, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, Mesoplodon danconae, Mesoplodon densirostris, Mesoplodon eueu, Mesoplodon europaeus, Mesoplodon ginkgodens, Mesoplodon grayi, Mesoplodon hectori, Mesoplodon hotaula, Mesoplodon lawleyi, Mesoplodon layardii, Mesoplodon longirostris, Mesoplodon medilineatus, Mesoplodon meneghinii, Mesoplodon mirus, Mesoplodon perrini, Mesoplodon peruvianus, Mesoplodon posti, Mesoplodon slangkopi, Mesoplodon stejnegeri, Mesoplodon traversii, Mesoplodon tumidirostris, Ziphius gibbus, Ziphius tenuirostris, Ziphius (Dolichodon) geelongensis
Type specimen: AMNH 35027, a skeleton. Its type locality is Brighton Beach, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in New Zealand.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Brighton Beach
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