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Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 
AphiaID: 137124

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		  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)
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
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: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137124 on 2013-05-24
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