Cuvier’s Beaked Whale
| IUCN global conservation status: Minor preoccupation ACCOBAMS/IUCN global conservation status: Vulnerable | |
| Mediterranean: Regular | Black Sea: Absent |
| Name: | Scientific: | From Greek xiphos = sword, indicating a slender beak, and from Latin cavus = hollow and rostrum = beak, presumably to indicate a marked rostral concavity. |
Common: | After the famous French naturalist and palaeontologist Georges Cuvier, who described the species in 1823. |