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Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's beaked whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Taxonomy
Tasmacetus shepherdi was named by Oliver (1937). It is extant. Its type specimen is Wonganui Museum, New Zealand, a skeleton (skull and skeleton). Its type locality is Ohawe Beach, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in New Zealand.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver p. 373 figs. Plates I-V
1963Tasmacetus shepherdi Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1968Tasmacetus shepherdi Moore p. 276
1982Tasmacetus shepherdi Fordyce p. 423
1998Tasmacetus shepherdi Rice p. 87
2005Tasmacetus shepherdi Mead and Brownell p. 743
2008Tasmacetus shepherdi Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2011Tasmacetus shepherdi Geisler et al. p. 5 figs. Table 1
2016Tasmacetus shepherdi Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
—Amblyoccipita
—Stegoceti
familyZiphiidae
genusTasmacetus
speciesshepherdi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver 1937 [Shepherd's beaked whale]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marine, freshwatersubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquatico
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: piscivoref
Diet 2: carnivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubo
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:10
Modified: 2005-06-08 12:11:10
Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Uhen 2004, Nowak 1991

Age range: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Chile Tasmacetus shepherdi (168373)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Saint Helena (Tristan da Cunha) Tasmacetus shepherdi (82084 82085 82086)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0New Zealand (North Island) Tasmacetus shepherdi (type locality: 86905)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0South Africa Tasmacetus shepherdi (168374)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Australia (Victoria) Tasmacetus shepherdi (168375)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Argentina Tasmacetus shepherdi (168372)