Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Ziphiidae > Genus Mesoplodon

Mesoplodon densirostris (de Blainville, 1817)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name
*Dioplodon*	Gervais, 1855	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: Blainville-snoetwalvis

Dutch: spitssnuitdolfijn; spitssnuitdolfijn van De Blainville sources: Rappé, G. (1985). Isocyamus delphinii (Guérin, 1836), first finding of a whale louse (Amphipoda, Cyamidae) at our coast [Isocyamus delphinii (Guérin, 1836), eerste vondst van een walvisluis aan onze kust]. De Strandvlo 5(3): 63-65

English: Blainville's beaked whale; cow-fish; dense-beaked whale; paus Blainvillei; tropical beaked whale sources: Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species Identification Guide. Rome. 312 p.;van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

French: baleine à bec de Blainville; baleine bécune; dioplodon densirostre; mesoplodon de Blainville

German: Blainville-Schnabelwal; Blainville-Zweizahnwal sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Πυκνόρυγχο μεσόπλοδον sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: mesoplodonte di De Blainville sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: kobuha kujira; コブハクジラ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: hog-buri-gorae

Lithuanian: Blenvilio dvidantis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia bicuda de Blainville

Russian: remneub Blainvillya; ремнезуб блэнвиля sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: Blainvillov dvozob sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballena picuda; ballena picuda de Blainville; ballenato de hoccico de Blainville; zifio de Blainville

Swedish: Blainvilles näbbval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Ремнезуб Бленвіля

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Mesoplodon densirostris (de Blainville, 1817). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137122