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Type locality: La Jolla, California, North Pacific (32°51'41" N., 

 117°15'19 // W.). 



Distribution: North Pacific, recorded from the east coast of Japan and 

 the west coast of the United States between 32° N. and 47° N. 



Genus ZIPHIUS G. Cuvier 



^iphius G. Cuvier, 1823, Recherches sur les ossements fossiles, 5: 350- 

 352. — Turner, 1872, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 26: 759 [tax- 

 onomy]. — Flower, 1874, Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 8: 207 [tax- 

 onomy]. — Harmer, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1924: 545 

 [characters]. — Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 60 [characters; 

 history; relationship]. — Fraser, 1942, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, (8), 

 112: 21, pis. 1-3 (skull, rostra, teeth) [mesorostral ossification]. 



Xiphius Agassiz, 1846, Nomen. Zool., p. 389 [emendation of ^iphius 

 Cuvier]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 258 [characters; 

 classification]. 



Diodon Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buffon, Hist. nat. 

 animaux rares . . . l(Cetaces): 123, 440 (name) [included species: 

 Diodon Desmaresti Risso type (=^jphius cavirostris Cuvier) by original 

 designation (p. 123), D. sowerbyi (sic) Blainville {=Mesoplodon bidens 

 Sowerby); generic name preoccupied by Diodon Linnaeus 1758, a 

 genus of fish and Diodon Storr, 1780, for the narwhal (=Monodon 

 Linnaeus)]. 



Orca Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amphibien, p. 34 [included species: 

 Delphinus bidentatus "Huntfer]" (=Hyperoodon ampullatus Forster), 

 Delphinus Desmarestii Risso (type= ^iphius cavirostris Cuvier)]. 



Hypodon Haldeman, 1841, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1: 127 

 [included species: H. desmarestii (ty pe= ^iphins cavirostris Cuvier), 

 H. Sowerbyi (=Mesoplodon bidens Sowerby) ; proposed as a new name for 

 Diodon Lesson, preoccupied]. 



Aliama Gray, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 242 [type species, by 

 monotypy: Aliama desmarestii (=Delphinus desmarestii Risso =£iphius 

 cavirostris Cuvier) ] . 



Petrorhynchus Gray, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 524 [type species : 

 Hyperoodon capensis Gray {=^jphius cavirostris Cuvier), by monotypy]. 



^iphiorrhynchus Burmeister, 1865, Rev. Farmaceutica, 4: 363 [work not 

 seen]; 1866, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), 17: 94 [type species: ^ipfi- 

 iorrhynchus cryptodon Burmeister (=£iphius cavirostris Cuvier), by mono- 

 typy]- 



Zyphius Moreno, 1895, Anal. Mus. La Plata, Zool., 3: 4 [reiterated 

 misspelling in combination with £. chathamensis (sic) and £. chatamensis 

 (sic)]. 



Type species: Zjphius cavirostris Cuvier, by original designation and 

 monotypy. 



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