beaked whale
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Noun edit
beaked whale (plural beaked whales)
- Any of at least 20 species of whales in the family Ziphiidae, known to dive to great depths, but not well understood generally.
- 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- When the beaked whales surfaced near the Sea Shepherd boat, the scientists scrambled to make observations, take photographs, and deploy acoustic-recording buoys: Beaked whales are notoriously skittish.
Derived terms edit
terms derived from beaked whale
- Andrew's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bowdoini)
- Antillean beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)
- Arnoux's beaked whale (Berardius arnuxii)
- Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
- bandolero beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
- Bering Sea beaked whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri)
- Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)
- Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
- deep-crest beaked whale (Mesoplodon bowdoini)
- dense-beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)
- European beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)
- Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)
- giant four-toothed whale (Berardius bairdii)
- ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens)
- goose-beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
- Gray's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi)
- Gulf Stream beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)
- Haast's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi)
- Hector's beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori)
- Hubbs' beaked whale (Mesoplodon carlhubbsi)
- Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus)
- Layard's beaked whale(Mesoplodon layardii)
- lesser beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
- Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus)
- North Atlantic beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
- North Pacific bottlenose whale (Berardius bairdii)
- North Pacific four-toothed whale (Berardius bairdii)
- North Sea beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
- northern giant bottlenose whale (Berardius bairdii)
- Perrin's beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini)
- Peruvian beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
- pygmy beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
- saber-toothed whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri)
- scamperdown whale (Mesoplodon grayi)
- Shepherd's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- southern beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi)
- Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
- splay-toothed whale (Mesoplodon bowdoini)
- Stejneger's beaked whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri)
- strap-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon layardii)
- Tasman's beaked whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi)
- tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus)
- True's beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus)
Translations edit
whales in the family Ziphiidae
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References edit
beaked whale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Ziphiidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Ziphiidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
