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Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885 
AphiaID: 254991

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 bowdoini Nishiwaki, 1962 (misidentification)
 Nodus stejnegeri Moore, 1963 (synonym)
Sources  original description: True, F. W. (1885). Contributions to the history of the Commander Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 1885:584--585. [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: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Aleut kigan-agaliusiak  [details]
English Bering Sea beaked whale  [details]
English saber-toothed beaked whale  [details]
English Stejneger's beaked whale  [details]
French baleine à bec de Stejneger  [details]
French mesoplodon de Stejneger  [details]
Japanese ougiha-kuzira  [details]
Korean keun-ippal-buri-gorae  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Μεσόπλοδον του Στέινεγκερ  [details]
Russian komandorskii remnezub  [details]
Russian malyi plavun  [details]
Russian remnezub steinegera  [details]
Spanish ballena picuda de Stejneger  [details]
Spanish zifio de Stejneger  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution North Pacific [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: cold temperate and subarctic, oceanic [details]

Holotype: Skull of juvenile, without mandible, in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, no. 21112, collected by L. Stejneger in 1883. [details]

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

Type locality: Bering Island, Bering Sea, Siberia, Russian Federation. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254991
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-12-24 20:10:49Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885. 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=254991 on 2013-06-19
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