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Africanacetus Bianucci, Lambert & Post 2007

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Genus Africanacetus Bianucci, Lambert & Post, 2007

TYPE SPECIES. — Africanacetus ceratopsis Bianucci, Lambert & Post, 2007 by original designation.

OTHER REFERRED SPECIES. — Africanacetus gracilis Ichishima, Augustin, Toyofuku & Kitazato, 2017.

Notes

Published as part of Lambert, Olivier, Muizon, Christian de, Duhamel, Guy & Plicht, Johannes Van Der, 2018, Neogene and Quaternary fossil remains of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from deep-sea deposits off Crozet and Kerguelen islands, Southern Ocean, pp. 135-160 in Geodiversitas 40 (6) on page 143, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a6, http://zenodo.org/record/5745694

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References

  • BIANUCCI G., LAMBERT O. & POST K. 2007. - A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa. Geodiversitas 29: 5 - 62.
  • ICHISHIMA H., AUGUSTIN A. H., TOYOFUKU T. & KITAZATO H. 2017. - A new species of Africanacetus (Odontoceti: Ziphiidae) found on the deep ocean floor off the coast of Brazil. Deep Sea Research Part II. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr 2.2016.12.002