Mesoplodon grayi

von Haast, 1876

Gray's Beaked Whale

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Whippomorpha
Infraorder : Cetacea
Parvorder : Odontoceti
Superfamily : Ziphioidea
Family : Ziphiidae
Genus : Mesoplodon

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Haast, J. von. 1876-06. On a new ziphioid whale. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1876(1):7-13.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28540880

Original name as described

Mesoplodon Grayi

Other common names

Scamperdown Whale · Southern Beaked Whale

Type material

lost (number not known)

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

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

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

Argentina · Australia · Brazil · Chile · Falkland Islands · French Southern and Antarctic Lands · Maldives · New Zealand · Peru · South Africa · Prince Edward Islands · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands · Uruguay · Antarctica?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006475

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Mesoplodon australis

W. H. Flower, 1878

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

australis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1876.2.16.2 (= BMNH:Mamm:1677a)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/38730bb5-79a1-4faf-ab64-b7d6da1420c3 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e5ccc165-46c0-47e7-ac7b-463617c668d2

Authority page

417, footnote; Plates 71–73

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28776128

Authority publication

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Lahille (1899:199, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147065) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37834)
  2. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Mesoplodon Grayi

von Haast, 1876

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

grayi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

syntypes

Authority page

9

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28540880

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Davies (1963:110) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/42155)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:112) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:301) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  5. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:355) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #13247) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #13247) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006475) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13247/50366236) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Mesoplodon haasti

W. H. Flower, 1878

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

haasti

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RCS 2905

Type kind

holotype

Authority publication

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Mesoplodon haasti

W. H. Flower, 1878

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

haasti

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

684

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28518642

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

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