Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast, 1876

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 363

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352970

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7155095

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scientific name

Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast, 1876
status

 

Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast, 1876 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Zealand, "the Chatham Islands. .. from specimens stranded ... on the Waitangi beach of the main island of that group."

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: cold-temperate waters; one specimen found in the Netherlands (Boschma, 1950:779).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: australis , haasti .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Ziphiidae

Genus

Mesoplodon