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 densirostris (de Blainville, 1817)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name

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: baleine à bec de Blainville; 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.;UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

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

Korean: hog-buri-gorae

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

Polish: dziobowal Blainville'a 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; ballenato hocicudo de Blainville; zifio de Blainville sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Ukrainian: Ремнезуб Бленвіля

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. de (1817). In [Desmarest, A. G.] Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle 9.
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	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.
additional source	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	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.

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External Links

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Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Mesoplodon densirostris (de Blainville, 1817). 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:137122