[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
     Order Cetacea Brisson, 1762 - whales, dolphins, and porpoises see Infraorder Cetacea Brisson, 1762
       Family Ziphiidae Gray, 1850 - beaked whales
         Genus Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850 - beaked whales
           1 Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804) - Sowerby's beaked whale
           2 Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville, 1817) - Blainville's beaked whale
           3 Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855) - Gervais' beaked whale
           4 Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 - Gray's beaked whale
           5 Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871) - Hector's beaked whale
           6 Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913 - True's beaked whale