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SPECIES Mesoplodon europaeus

Author:Gervais, 1855.
Citation:Hist. Nat. Mammifères, 2: 320.
Common Name:Gervais’ Beaked Whale
Type Locality:English Channel, "qui provient d'un individu harponné dans la Manche."
Distribution:Aside from the type, one specimen from Ireland, one specimen from Guinea-Bissau, and three records from Ascension Isl, it is only known from the Western North Atlantic: temperate to tropical waters.
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Comments:Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c) and Norman and Mead (2002, Mammalian Species, 688). The type was not harpooned, as stated by Gervais, but was found as a "cadavre" (Deslongschamps, 1866:177).
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    gervaisi (Deslongchamps, 1866)

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