Relationships towards this taxonGenus group namesVernaculars (+)
(-) 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 Literatureoriginal 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. |
 
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TaxonomyWoRMS
External LinksBiodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) Marine Life Information Network - UK GenBank (14 nucleotides; 3 proteins) GBIF
CitationPerrin, 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:137126Image
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Environment    marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial
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