Flora and Fauna of North Carolina

A guide to the species that call North Carolina home!

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Taxonomy
« Back To Toothed Whales Parvorder Odontoceti
- Superfamily Ziphioidea
  - 3 Mesoplodont Whales Genus Mesoplodon
  - 1 Goose-beaked Whales Genus Ziphius

Gervais' Beaked Whale ¹
Mesoplodon europaeus

Blainville's Beaked Whale ²
Mesoplodon densirostris

True's Beaked Whale ¹
Mesoplodon mirus

Cuvier's Beaked Whale ³
Ziphius cavirostris

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