| Description | Gray's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi), sometimes known as Haast's beaked whale, the Scamperdown whale, or the southern beaked whale, is one of the better-known members of the genus Mesoplodon. This species is fairly gregarious and strands relatively frequently for a beaked whale. In the Māori language, this species is called hakurā or iheihe.
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Hyperoodontidae : Mesoplodon : Mesoplodon grayi |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Ziphiidae : Mesoplodon : Mesoplodon grayi |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Mesoplodon |
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| Scientific Name | Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 |
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| Name Published In | Haast, J. von. (1876). Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, 1976, 9:457. |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Mesoplodon grayi | species | belongs to Mesoplodon | stated without evidence | Trouessart, 1904 | | Mesoplodon grayi | species | belongs to Mesoplodon | stated with evidence | Lambert and Louwye, 2016 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene |
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| Environment | marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Cetacea) |
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| Diet | piscivore, carnivore (based on Ziphiidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Cetacea) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. W. Rice. 1998. Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4:1-231 |
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| Common Name(s) | Gray's Beaked Whale, Grays Näbbval, Grays Spitssnuitdolfijn, Spitssnuitdolfijn Van Gray, Camperdown-wal, Gray Gagalı Balinası, Gray-zweizahnwal, Gray-snoetwalvis, Grėjaus Dvidantis, Baleia Bicuda De Gray, Baleine à Bec De Gray, Ballenato Hocicudo De Gray, Delfin Picudo De Gray, Dziobowal Graya, Mesoplodon De Gray, Mesoplodonte Di Gray, Scamperdown Whale, Southern Beaked Whale, Zifio De Gray, Μεσόπλοδον του Γκρέυ, Ремнезуб Грея, ремнезуб грэя, Gray S Beaked Whale, Haast's Beaked Whale, Grays Beaked Whale, Grays Spitssnuitdolfijn, Spitssnuitdolfijn Van Gray |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoplodon_grayi |
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| Rice D. W. (1998) Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution, The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4, 1-231 |
| Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929 |
| Scheffer V. B., Rice D. W. (1963) A list of the marine mammals of the world, United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 431, 1-12 |
| Moore J. C. (1968) Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys, Fieldiana: Zoology 53 4, 209-298 |
| Mead J. G., Brownell R. L. (2005) Order Cetacea, Mammalian Species of the World, 723-743 |
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| Lambert O., Louwye S. (2016) A new early Pliocene species of Mesoplodon: a calibration mark for the radiation of this species- rich beaked whale genus, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1055754 doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1055754 |
| Ramassamy B. (2016) Description of a new long-snouted beaked whale from the Late Miocene of Denmark: evolution of suction feeding and sexual dimorphism in the Ziphiidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178, 381-409 doi:10.1111/zoj.12418 |
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Mesoplodon grayi
