Relationships towards this taxonGenus group namesSpecies group names
Mesoplodon bidens | Nishiwaki, 1957 | synonym | Vernaculars (+)
(-) Dutch: Japanse spitssnuitdolfijn English: gingko-toothed whale; ginkgo-toothed beaked whale; Japanese 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;UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms French: baleine à bec de Nishiwaki; mesoplodon Japonais Japanese: ichoha kujira Korean: eunhaeng-ippal-buri-gorae Russian: ginkozubyi remnezub Sinhala: hotaulal Spanish, Castillian: ballena picuda de dientes de ginkgo; ballena picuda Japonesa; zifio Japonés Thai: plawan fan song si Literatureoriginal description | Nishiwaki, M. and T. Kamiya. (1958). A beaked whale Mesoplodon stranded at Oiso Beach, Japan. The Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute, Tokyo 13:53--83, pl. 1--17. | 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 | 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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CitationPerrin, W. (2014). Mesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958. 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:231407Image![loading](images/ajax-loader.gif)
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