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

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
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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231409 on 2013-05-20