WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991

Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991
AphiaID: 231409

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

Sources

original description: Reyes, J. C., J. G. Mead and K. Van Waerebeek. (1991). A new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon peruvianus sp. n. (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) from Perus. Marine Mammal Science 7:1--24. [details]

basis of record: 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: 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]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	Peruvian beaked whale	[details]
English	pygmy beaked whale	[details]
French	baleine à bec pygmée	[details]
Spanish	ballena picuda pigmea	[details]

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Distribution

East Pacific [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (33 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS

Notes

Distribution: A species of the eastern Pacific, but one record from New Zealand. [details]

Habitat: tropical to warm temperate [details]

Holotype: Skukll and postcranial skeleton of a physically mature male in Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado" in Lima, Peru; no. MHNJP 1146. [details]

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

Type locality: Playa Paraíso (11 degrees 12 minutes S latitude), Huacho, Lima, Peru [details]

Images

Pygmy beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
added on 2009-05-01 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-01 23:53:25

Pygmy beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvianus)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:27:16

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231409

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z	created	Charbonneau, Danny
2007-12-24 20:10:49Z	changed	Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z	changed	Perrin, William

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Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991. 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=231409 on 2013-06-19

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