Beneziphius, Lambert O., 2005

Lambert O., 2005, Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium), Geodiversitas 27 (3), pp. 443-497 : 473

Genus Beneziphius n. gen.

TYPE AND ONLY SPECIES. — Beneziphius brevirostris n. sp.

ETYMOLOGY. — From “ Bene ” in honour of the Belgian naturalist Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894), whose work at the Catholic University of Louvain lead to major advances in the knowledge of the anatomy of extant and fossil cetaceans ; and “ ziphius ”: name of the type genus of the family Ziphiidae .

DIAGNOSIS. — The same as for the only species B. brevirostris n. sp.