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Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855) 
AphiaID: 137123

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Ziphiidae (Family) > Mesoplodon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850
Synonymised
taxa		  Dioplodon europaeus Gervais, 1855 (basionym)
 Dioplodon gervaisi Deslongchamps, 1866 (synonym)
 Mesoplodon densirostris Gunther, 1955 (misidentification)
 Mesoplodon gervaisi Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 (synonym)
 Neoziphius europaeus Gray, 1871 (synonym)
 Nodus europaeus Hershkovitz, 1961 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Gervais, P. (1855). Histoire naturelle des Mamifères. L. Curmer, Paris. 2. Ordre des Cétacés:314--331.
page(s): 320 [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Culik, B. 2000. Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins., available online at http://www.wcmc.org.uk/cms/reports/small_cetaceans/data/K_sima/K_sima.htm [details]

additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: Norman, S. A. and J. G. Mead. (2001). Mesoplodon europaeus. Mammalian Species 688:1--5. [details]

additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch Europese spitssnuitdolfijn  [details]
English European beaked whale  [details]
English Gervais' beaked whale  [details]
French baleine à bec de Gervais  [details]
Spanish zifio de Gervais  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Warm-temperate to tropical waters of Atlantic. [details]

Habitat: oceanic [details]

Holotype: "Skull only, in Caen Museum; found floating in the English Channel and retrieved by a ship's captain; presented to M. Deslongchamps père through M. Vautier" (Hershkovitz, 1966). [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Type locality: English Channel [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 24)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 24)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - www.wetenschatten.be
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:11:25

Mesoplodon europaeus
Mesoplodon europaeus
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:11:32
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history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137123 on 2010-09-02
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