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 ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Mesoplodon bidens*	Nishiwaki, 1957	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Japanse spitssnuitdolfijn

English: gingko-toothed whale; ginkgo-toothed beaked whale; Japanese 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;UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

French: baleine à bec de Nishiwaki; mesoplodon Japonais

Japanese: ichoha kujira

Korean: eunhaeng-ippal-buri-gorae

Russian: ginkozubyi remnezub

Sinhala: hotaulal

Spanish, Castillian: ballena picuda de dientes de ginkgo; ballena picuda Japonesa; zifio Japonés

Thai: plawan fan song si

Literature

original description	Nishiwaki, M. and T. Kamiya. (1958). A beaked whale Mesoplodon stranded at Oiso Beach, Japan. The Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute, Tokyo 13:53--83, pl. 1--17.
additional source	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	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.

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Taxonomy

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External Links

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Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Mesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958. 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:231407