Berardius Duvernoy, 1851

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Genus Berardius Duvernoy, 1851

Two species have been recognized based on genetic analyses, B. arnuxii in the Southern Hemisphere and B. bairdii in the North Pacific Ocean ( Dalebout 2002, Dalebout et al. 2004). Mead and Brownell (2005) suggested that Berardius could be monotypic. A third and as yet unnamed species (informally known as ‘Karasu’) was described in 2016 in the North Pacific ( Morin et al. 2017).