Cetacea taxon details

Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885

254991  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254991)

accepted
Species
Mesoplodon bowdoini Nishiwaki, 1962 · unaccepted (misidentification)
Nodus stejnegeri Moore, 1963 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
True, F. W. (1885). Contributions to the history of the Commander Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 1885:584--585. [details]   
Note Bering Island, Bering Sea, Siberia, Russian...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Bering Island, Bering Sea, Siberia, Russian Federation. [details]
Perrin, W.F. (2021). World Cetacea Database. Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea.../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254991 on 2024-03-29
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2007-12-24 20:10:49Z
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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.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
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]

From other sources
Habitat cold temperate and subarctic, oceanic [details]
LanguageName 
Aleut kigan-agaliusiak  [details]
English Stejneger's beaked whalesaber-toothed beaked whaleBering Sea beaked whale  [details]
French mesoplodon de Stejnegerbaleine à bec de Stejneger  [details]
Japanese オウギハクジラougiha-kuzira  [details]
Korean keun-ippal-buri-gorae  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Μεσόπλοδον του Στέινεγκερ  [details]
Russian remnezub steinegeramalyi plavunkomandorskii remnezub  [details]
Spanish zifio de Stejnegerballena picuda de Stejneger  [details]