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Mesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958 
AphiaID: 231407

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		  Mesoplodon bidens Nishiwaki, 1957 (misidentification)
 Mesoplodon densirostris Ogawa, 1938 (misidentification)
 Mesoplodon hotaula Deraniyagala, 1963 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Nishiwaki, M. and T. Kamiya. (1958). A beaked whale Mesoplodon stranded at Oiso Beach, Japan. The Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute, Tokyo 13:53--83, pl. 1--17. [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: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Danish almindelig næbhval (from synonym)  [details]
Dutch Japanse spitssnuitdolfijn  [details]
English gingko-toothed whale  [details]
English ginkgo-toothed beaked whale  [details]
English Japanese beaked whale  [details]
English Sowerby's beaked whale (from synonym)  [details]
French baleine à bec de Nishiwaki  [details]
French mesoplodon Japonais  [details]
Japanese ichoha kujira  [details]
Korean eunhaeng-ippal-buri-gorae  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Δίδοντο μεσόπλοδον (from synonym)  [details]
Polish dziobowal dwuzębny (from synonym)  [details]
Russian ginkozubyi remnezub  [details]
Sinhala hotaulal  [details]
Spanish ballena picuda de dientes de ginkgo  [details]
Spanish ballena picuda Japonesa  [details]
Spanish ballenato hocicudo de Sowerby (from synonym)  [details]
Spanish zifio Japonés  [details]
Thai plawan fan song si  [details]
Turkish Soverby iki dişli balinası (from synonym)  [details]
Turkish Sowerbi iki dişli balinası (from synonym)  [details]
Ukrainian Ремнезуб атлантичний (from synonym)  [details]
Welsh morfil gylfinog Sowerby (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Indo-Pacific [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: temperate to tropical water, oceanic [details]

Holotype: Stranded animal; entire skeleton preserved, National Science Museum, Tokyo, no. 08744; collected Sept. 23, 1957.  [details]

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

Type locality: Oiso Beach, Sagami Bay, near Tokyo, Japan. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231407
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2007-11-16 10:24:00Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Mesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231407 on 2013-05-26
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