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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Berardius

WoRMS 231402ITIS 180494key worms:231402
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180494 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Berardius arnouxi

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Berardius
Photo · NOAA United States. National Marine Fisheries Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The four-toothed whales or giant beaked whales are beaked whales in the genus Berardius. They include Arnoux's beaked whale in cold Southern Hemispheric waters, and Baird's beaked whale in the cold temperate waters of the North Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2016.R

5
observations
5
records
2001–2016
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:231402")