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

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 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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254992 on 2013-05-25