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SPECIES Mesoplodon grayi

Author:Von Haast, 1876.
Citation:Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876: 9.
Common Name:Gray’s Beaked Whale
Type Locality:New Zealand, "the Chatham Islands. . . from specimens stranded. . . on the Waitangi beach of the main island of that group."
Distribution:Southern hemisphere: cold-temperate waters; one specimen found in the Netherlands (Boschma, 1950:779).
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Comments:Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c).
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    australis Flower, 1878
    haasti Flower, 1878

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