Berardius arnuxii

Duvernoy, 1851

Arnoux's Beaked Whale

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Whippomorpha
Infraorder : Cetacea
Parvorder : Odontoceti
Superfamily : Ziphioidea
Family : Ziphiidae
Genus : Berardius

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Duvernoy, G.L. 1851. Mémoire sur les caractères ostéologiques des genres nouveaux ou des espèces nouvelles de cétacés vivants ou fossiles. Annales des sciences naturelles (3)15:5-71.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432833 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432849

Original name as described

Berardius Arnuxii

Other common names

New Zealand Beaked Whale · Southern Four-toothed Whale

Type material

MNHN-ZM-AC-A10733

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"échoué sur la côte, dans le port d'Akaroa, presqu'île de Bancks, dans la Nouvelle-Zélande" (= New Zealand, Canterbury Prov., Akaroa).

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

Antarctica · Argentina · Australia · Brazil · Chile · Falkland Islands · French Southern and Antarctic Lands · New Zealand · South Africa · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands · Uruguay

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006463

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Berardius Arnuxii

Duvernoy, 1851

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

arnuxii

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-AC-A10733

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

52, 68

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432833 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432849

Authority publication

Annales des sciences naturelles

Name usages

  1. Duvernoy (1851:52, 68, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432833, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432849) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68918)
  2. Duvernoy (1851:68, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432833, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13432849) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68918)
  3. Gray (1866:348, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9730093) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37226)
  4. Gray (1870:394, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29404917) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69399)
  5. Oliver (1922:567, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32281837) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14225)
  6. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:299) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  7. Corbet & Hill (1991:121) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  8. Mead & Brownell (1993:361) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69010)
  9. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  10. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:347) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  11. Jackson & Groves (2015:343) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34474)
  12. Jackson & Groves (2015:343) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34474)
  13. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #2762) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  14. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #2762) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  15. D'Elía, Canto-Hernández, Ossa, Verde-Arregoitia, Bostelmann, Iriarte, Amador, Quiroga-Carmona, Hurtado, Cadenillas & Valdez (2020:72) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67620)
  16. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006463) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  17. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2762/197190014) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Berardius Arnuxi

A. Murray, 1866

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

arnuxi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

341

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580337

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Murray (1866:341, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580337) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  2. Gray (1868:10, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15869410) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60531)
  3. Gray (1871:99, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15945532) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37256)
  4. Gray (1873:144, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28504345) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67205)
  5. Fraser & Purves (1960:39, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27756155) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/49914)
  6. Davies (1963:110) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/42155)
  7. Hershkovitz (1966:123, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7869965) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/11469)
  8. Moore (1968:276, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2764190) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39802)
  9. Corbet & Hill (1980:112) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)

Berardius Arnouxi

Hector, 1870

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

arnouxi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

27

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34428567

Authority publication

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

Name usages

Gray (1874:96, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34882222) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67283)

Ziphius (Berardius) Arnouxii

(R. Owen, 1870)

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

arnouxii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

31

Authority publication

Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society

Berardius arnouxi

Flower, 1874

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

arnouxi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

subsequent_usage · incorrect_subsequent_spelling

Authority page

12

Authority publication

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London

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