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--> ORDER CETACEA
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--> FAMILY Ziphiidae
--> GENUS Mesoplodon
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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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
australis Flower, 1878 haasti Flower, 1878
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