Sato's beaked whale Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present,
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Illustration of Berardius minimus (black scale bar is 1 metre [3.3 ft]) | |
Size compared to an average human | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Ziphiidae |
Genus: | Berardius |
Species: | B. minimus
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Binomial name | |
Berardius minimus Yamada, Kitamura & Matsuishi, 2019
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Sato's beaked whale (Berardius minimus; Japanese: Kurotsuchi-kujira) is a little-known species of four-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale.[3]