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Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883 
AphiaID: 242608

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) > Berardius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Berardius Duvernoy, 1851
Synonymised
taxa		  Berardius bairdi Omura, Fujino & Kimura, 1955 (synonym)
 Berardius bairdi bairdi Hershkovitz, 1966 (synonym)
 Berardius vegaae Trouessart, 1904 (misspelling)
 Berardius vegae Malm, 1883 (synonym)
 Berardius vegana Bourdelle & Grasse, 1955 (misspelling)
Sources  original description: Stejneger, L. (1883). Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 6:75. [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: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Aleutian cha-dakh  [details]
Aleutian chiduk  [details]
Czech vorvaHovec nosatý  [details]
Czech vorvanovec velký  [details]
Dutch spitssnuitdolfijn van Baird  [details]
English Baird's beaked whale  [details]
English giant bottlenose whale  [details]
English North Pacific bottle-nosed whale  [details]
English North Pacific giant bottlenose whale  [details]
French baleine ŕ bec de Baird  [details]
French bérardien de Baird  [details]
Japanese tsuchi kujira  [details]
Japanese tsuchimbo  [details]
Russian berardius berda  [details]
Russian dalnevostochnyi butylkonos  [details]
Russian plavun  [details]
Russian severnyi berardius  [details]
Russian severnyi plavun  [details]
Slovenian Severni crni kit  [details]
Spanish ballena nariz de botella  [details]
Spanish ballena picuda de Baird  [details]
Spanish gran calderon  [details]
Spanish zifio de Baird  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Northern North Pacific [details]
Links To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: oceanic [details]

Holotype: Skull in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, no. 20992, collected autumn 1882 by L. Stejneger [details]

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

Type locality: Stare Gavan, eastern shore of Bering Island, Bering Sea, North Pacific [details]
Images 
Berardius bairdii
Berardius bairdii
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:14:26

School of Baird's beaked whales (Berardius bairdii in the eastern North Pacific
School of Baird's beaked whales (Berardius bairdii in the eastern North Pacific
added on 2009-04-30 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-30 00:24:36
Edit
history		 
Date   action   by
2007-07-16 21:05:52 GMT  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36 GMT  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883. In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=242608 on 2010-02-09
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