Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium)
Author
Lambert O.
text
Geodiversitas
2005
27
3
443
497
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5376445
1638-9395
5376445
Genus
Beneziphius
n. gen.
TYPE
AND ONLY SPECIES. —
Beneziphius brevirostris
n. sp.
ETYMOLOGY. — From “
Bene
” in honour of the Belgian naturalist
Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden
(1809-1894), whose work at the
Catholic University of Louvain
lead to major advances in the knowledge of the anatomy of extant and fossil cetaceans
; and “
ziphius
”: name of the
type
genus of the family
Ziphiidae
.
DIAGNOSIS. — The same as for the only species
B. brevirostris
n. sp.