Mesoplodon hotaula

Deraniyagala, 1963

Deraniyagala'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

Authority citation

Deraniyagala, P.E.P. 1963-03. A new beaked whale from Ceylon. Ceylon Today 12:13-14.

Original name as described

Mesoplodon hotaula

Type material

CNM 3WZ5

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Sri Lanka, washed ashore "in a dying condition" on 26 January 1963 at Ratmalana (6° 49' N, 79° 52' E), approxiately 8 km south of Colombo, on the west coast of Sri Lanka.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

Kiribati · Maldives · Seychelles · Sri Lanka

Taxonomy notes

split from M. ginkgodens

Taxonomy notes citation

Dalebout, M. L., Scott Baker, C., Steel, D., Thompson, K., Robertson, K. M., Chivers, S. J., ... & Potter, C. W. (2014). Resurrection of Mesoplodon hotaula Deraniyagala 1963: A new species of beaked whale in the tropical Indo-Pacific. Marine Mammal Science, 30(3), 1081-1108.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006477

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 hotaula

Deraniyagala, 1963

Family

Ziphiidae

Root name

hotaula

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

CNM 3WZ5

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

13

Authority publication

Ceylon Today

Name usages

  1. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  2. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:355) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #400000253) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #400000253) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006477) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  6. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/127826787/182525770) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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