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 europaeus (Gervais, 1855)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Dioplodon Gervais, 1855

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Species group names

*Mesoplodon densirostris*	Gunther, 1955	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Europese spitssnuitdolfijn

English: European beaked whale; Gervais' beaked whale; Gulf Stream beaked whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: baleine à bec de Gervais; mesoplodon de Gervais; mesoplodon d'Europe

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

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

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

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

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

Portuguese: baleia bicuda de Gervais

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

Spanish, Castillian: ballena picuda de Gervais; ballenato hocicudo de Gervais; zifio de Gervais; zifio de las Antillas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Ukrainian: Антильський ремнезуб; кит Жерве; Ремнезуб антильський

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	Culik, B. (2000). Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins.
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.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
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	Norman, S. A. and J. G. Mead. (2001). Mesoplodon europaeus. Mammalian Species 688:1--5.
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	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855). 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:137123