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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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