Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Ziphiidae > Genus Mesoplodon

Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: Gray-snoetwalvis

Dutch: Grays spitssnuitdolfijn; spitssnuitdolfijn van Gray sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: Gray's beaked whale; scamperdown whale; southern beaked whale sources: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp

French: baleine à bec de Gray; mesoplodon de Gray

German: Camperdown-Wal; Gray-Zweizahnwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Μεσόπλοδον του Γκρέυ sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: mesoplodonte di Gray sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: Grėjaus dvidantis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: dziobowal Graya sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia bicuda de Gray

Russian: ремнезуб грэя sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballenato hocicudo de Gray; delfin picudo de Gray; zifio de Gray sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: Grays näbbval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: Gray gagalı balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Ремнезуб Грея

Literature

original description	Haast, J. von. (1876). Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, 1976, 9:457.
basis of record	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp

Taxon found in 642 publications.

Genbank

Link to Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (26 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Mesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876. In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137124