Published December 31, 1982
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Mesoplodon europaeus
Description
Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855). Hist. Nat. Mamm., 2: 320.
TYPE LOCALITY: "English Channel."
DISTRIBUTION: Temperate and tropical waters of the North Atlantic.
COMMENT: Aside from the type, and one specimen from Guinea-Bissau, it is known only from the western North Atlantic (JGM, DWR).
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411005004005001.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 301, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C48BD20FFBFFFB2FFEA4163CA624C0E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ziphiidae
- Genus
- Mesoplodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gervais
- Species
- europaeus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982