Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885 
AphiaID: 254991

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		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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254991 on 2013-05-23