Northern bottlenose whale

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phylum Chordata The northern bottlenose whale is a species of bottlenose whale in the ziphiid family, and being one of two members of the genus Hyperoodon. The northern bottlenose was hunted heavily by Norway and Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is one of the deepest diving mammals known, reaching depths of 1453 m (4767 ft).

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class Mammalia
infraclass Eutheria
order Cetacea
suborder Odontoceti
family Ziphiidae
genus Hyperoodon
species H. ampullatus