Longman's Beaked Whale (Scientific Name: Indopacetus pacificus) is also known as Longman's Beaked Whale (English), Baleine à bec de Longman (French), Zifio de Longman (Spanish), formerly known as Longman's Beaked Whale, also known as Pacific Beaked Whale and Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale. I...
The scientific name of the Southern Bottlenose Whale is Hyperoodon planifrons, and its foreign name is Southern Bottlenose Whale. It feeds exclusively on squid and cuttlefish. The contents of its stomach are almost entirely cephalopod beak residues. Some squid from the Antarctic and Subantarctic wat...
The scientific name of the northern bottlenose whale is Hyperoodon ampullatus. In 1770, Forster first mentioned the northern bottlenose whale in the translation notes of "Kalm, Travels into North America". The scientific name at that time was "Balaena ampullatus". The species nam...
Antarctic minke whale (scientific name: Balaenoptera bonaerensis) is also known as Antarctic minke whale. New mitochondrial DNA tests have found that Antarctic minke whales are independent species from minke whales. This test also determined that minke whales are the closest relatives of Antarctic m...
Baird's beaked whale, whose foreign name is Baird's beaked whale, may be the largest of all beaked whales.The appearance of the Bel's beaked whale is so similar to that of Aldrich's beaked whale that some people believe that the two are the same species. However, their habitats are i...