🐋Cuvier's Beaked Whale
A baleia-bicuda-de-cuvier (nome científico: Ziphius cavirostris) é um cetáceo e a mais amplamente distribuída de todas as baleias-bicudas da família Ziphiidae. É menor do que a maioria das baleias de barbatanas, mas grande entre as baleias-bicudas. É pelágica, habitando águas mais profundas do que 1 000 pés (300 metros). Tem os mergulhos mais profundos e mais longos registrados entre as baleias a 9 816 pés (2 992 metros) e 222 minutos, respectivamente, embora a frequência e as razões para esses mergulhos extraordinários não sejam claras. Apesar de seu habitat em águas profundas, é uma das baleias encalhadas mais frequentemente avistadas.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 2,950 kg
- Body length
- 8.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 62 years
Everything we know about the Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2,950 kgrecord 3,000 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 2,701 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length8.5 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female7 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
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- 7.5 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass2,004 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan62 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 62 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length23 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation1.0 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1.0 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2,950 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Cuvier's Beaked Whale yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyHyperoodontidae
- ›genusZiphius
- ›speciesZiphius cavirostris
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusZiphius
All 15 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyZiphiidae
- genusZiphius
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