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

Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: True-snoetwalvis

English: True's beaked whale sources: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp

English-United States: True's Beaked Whale sources: Charles Hussey

French: baleine à bec de True; mesoplodon de True

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

Greek: Μεσόπλοδον του Τρου sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Polish: dziobowal Truego sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: baleia bicuda de True

Russian: ремнезуб тру sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: severni dvozob sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: ballenato hocicudo de True; zifio de True sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Turkish: True gagalı balinası; True iki dişli balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Ремнезуб Тру sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil gylfinog True

Literature

original description	True, F. W. (1913) Description of Mesoplodon mirum, a beaked whale recently discovered on the coast of North Carolina. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45:651--6 57, pl. 52--57.
basis of record	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
additional source	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	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GenBank (14 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913. In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137126