Khoikhoicetus is an extinct genus of ziphiid cetacean known from skulls found on seafloor sediments of probable Miocene age off the coast of South Africa and the Kerguelen Islands.
| Khoikhoicetus Temporal range: probably Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Ziphiidae |
| Genus: | †Khoikhoicetus Bianucci, Lambert, and Post, 2007 |
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Systematics
editTwo species are known, K. agulhasis and K. kergueleni. The genus Khoikhoicetus is closely related to beaked whales of the genera Mesoplodon, Hyperoodon, and Indopacetus. The two species differ from each other in their size and the width of the premaxillary crests.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ G. Bianucci, O. Lambert, and K. Post. 2007. A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa. Geodiversitas 29(4):561-618
- ^ LAMBERT O., MUIZON C. de, DUHAMEL G. & VAN DER PLICHT J. 2018. — Neogene and Quaternary fossil remains of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from deep-sea deposits off Crozet and Kerguelen islands, Southern Ocean. Geodiversitas 40 (6): 135-160. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a6
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