🐋Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
銀杏齒中喙鯨（學名Mesoplodon ginkgodens）旧称银杏齿喙鲸，又称日本喙鲸和银杏喙鲸。僅在1958年有過正式的描述報告，在本就罕為人知的喙鯨科中更是資料極少的幾個物種之一，雖然日本沿岸的捕鯨者在獵捕柯氏喙鯨時曾捕獲少量的銀杏齒中喙鯨與其他種喙鯨（多為胡氏中喙鯨）。為此種中喙鯨命名的日本科學家指出，牠們的牙齒形似銀杏的葉子，俗名即由此而來。科學家曾檢驗少數捕鯨者捕獲的個體，但關於銀杏齒中喙鯨的大部分研究資料仍取自擱淺屍體。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 1,500 kg
- Body length
- 5.04 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 35 years
Everything we know about the Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1,500 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length5.04 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female4.9 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 4.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan35 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length19 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation356 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1,500 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 Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyHyperoodontidae
- ›genusMesoplodon
- ›speciesMesoplodon ginkgodens
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusMesoplodon
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
- genusMesoplodon
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