WoRMS taxon details
Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871)
AphiaID: 137125
AphiaID: 137125
| 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 Gray, 1871 (basionym) Mesoplodon hectori Flower, 1878 (synonym) Mesoplodon knoxi Hector, 1873 (synonym) Paikea hectori Oliver, 1922 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1871). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4)8:117. [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: 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] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | 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 (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: circum-global [details] Habitat: cool temperate, oceanic [details] Holotype: Skull from stranding in 1866, in British Museum (Natural History), London, no. 1677b-76.2.16.3 [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Titai Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137125 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871). 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=137125 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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