Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 
AphiaID: 137124

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Ziphiidae > Mesoplodon

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850
Synonymised taxa		Berardius hectori Hector, 1874 (synonym) Mesoplodon australis Flower, 1878 (synonym) Mesoplodon haasti Flower, 1878 (synonym) Mesoplodon layardi Lahille, 1905 (synonym) Oulodon grayi von Haast, 1877 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Haast, J. von. (1876). Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, 1976, 9:457. [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] 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] additional source: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Afrikaans Gray-snoetwalvis  [details] Dutch Grays spitssnuitdolfijn  [details] Dutch spitssnuitdolfijn van Gray  [details] English Gray's beaked whale  [details] English scamperdown whale  [details] English southern beaked whale  [details] French baleine à bec de Gray  [details] French mesoplodon de Gray  [details] German Camperdown-Wal  [details] German Gray-Zweizahnwal  [details] Italian mesoplodonte di Gray  [details] Lithuanian Grėjaus dvidantis  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Μεσόπλοδον του Γκρέυ  [details] Polish dziobowal Graya  [details] Portuguese baleia bicuda de Gray  [details] Russian ремнезуб грэя  [details] Spanish ballenato hocicudo de Gray  [details] Spanish delfin picudo de Gray  [details] Spanish zifio de Gray  [details] Swedish Grays näbbval  [details] Turkish Gray gagalı balinası  [details] Ukrainian Ремнезуб Грея  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Antarctica [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Subantarctic Waters [details] World Oceans [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: circum-global [details] Habitat: cool temperate, oceanic [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Waitangi Beach, Chatham Island, New Zealand. [details] Type material: Three skulls, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand, received from W. Hood. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 62) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:04:27 Mesoplodon grayi added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-15 22:54:40
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137124
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   checked   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137124 on 2013-05-24