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Mesoplodon perrini Dalebout, Mead, Baker, Baker & van Helden, 2002 
AphiaID: 254992

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 hectori Mead, 1981 (misidentification)
Sources  original description: Dalebout, M. L., J. G. Mead, C. Scott Baker, A. N. Baker and A. L. van Helden. (2002). A new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini sp. n. (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) discovered through phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Marine Mammal Science 18:577--608. [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: 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 
English California beaked whale  [details]
English Perrin's beaked whale  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution East North Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Skull and skeleton of adult male stranded in Carlsbad, California of Sept. 9, 1978, in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, no. 504853. [details]

Habitat: oceanic [details]

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

Type locality: Carlsbad, California, U.S.A., 33 degrees 7 minutes N latitude, 117 degrees 20 minutes W longitude. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254992
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 perrini Dalebout, Mead, Baker, Baker & van Helden, 2002. 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=254992 on 2013-05-22
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