Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Ziphiidae > Genus Hyperoodon

Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hyperoodon*	Lacépède, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus*	(Forster, 1770)	synonym; alternate representation

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): bottlenose; nebbhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Czech: anarnak zobatý

Danish: dögling; døgling; naebhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: butskop; snavel potvisch

English: bottle-head; bottlie; common bottlenose whale; flounder's head; North Atlantic bottle-nosed whale; northern bottlenose whale; northern bottle-nosed whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

English-United States: Northern Bottlenose Whale sources: Charles Hussey

Faroese: döglink

French: baleine à bec; dauphin de Honfleur; grand souffleur à bec d'oie; hyperodon arctique; hyperoodon boréal; hyperoodon butzkopf

German: Butskopf; Dögling; Entenwal

Greek: Υπερωόδοντας του Βορά; Υπερωόδοντας του Βορρά sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: andarnefia; andhvaler; döglingur

Italian: iperodonte boreale sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: kita-tokkuri-kuzira

Kalaallisut: anarnak

Lithuanian: aukštakaktis snapuotis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: andehval; bottlenose; bottlenosen; naebhval; nebbhval; nebhval; stub sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: bottlenose; nebbhval sources: Travels into N. Am., 1:18

Norwegian Nynorsk: bottlenose; nebbkval sources: Travels into N. Am., 1:18

Nynorsk (Norwegian): bottlenose; nebbkval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: dogling północny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: butylkonos; бутылконос высоколобый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: severni račji kit sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballena nariz de botella del norte; calderón boreal; hocico de botella sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: nabbad gomtand; näbbval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: kuzey ördek balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Високочолий пляшконіс; північний пляшконіс; Пляшконіс високочолий; Пляшконіс північний sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil trwyn potel

Literature

original description	Forster. (1770). In Kalm, Travels into North America 1:18, ftn.
basis of record	UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
additional source	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

Taxon found in 98 publications.

Genbank

Link to Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (22 nucleotides; 39 proteins)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:343899