Species Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphinus densirostris Blainville, H.M.D. de 1817. in, Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle Appliquée aux Arts à l'Agriculture, à l'Economie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. par une Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs. Nouvelle édition presqu'entièrement refondue et considerablement augmentée; avec des figures tirées des trois regnes de la nature. Tome IX. [178].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP part rostrum only, unknown locality.

  Secondary source:

   Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [134]

 

Generic Combinations

• Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville, 1817).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Oceanic, pelagic, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Diet includes cephalopods.

 

General References

Bannister, J.L., Kemper, C.M. & Warneke, R.M. 1996. The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 242 pp.

Bryden, M.M. 1978. Whales and whaling in Queensland waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 89: v-xviii

Dalebout, M.L., van Helden, A., van Waerebeek, K. & Baker, C.S. 1998. Molecular genetic identification of southern hemisphere beaked whales. Molecular Ecology 7: 687-694

Guiler, E.R. 1978. Whale strandings in Tasmania since 1945 with notes on some seal reports. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 112: 189-213

Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.

MacLeod, C.D. & Zuur, A.F. 2005. Habitat utilization by Blainville's beaked whales off Great Abaco, northern Bahamas, in relation to seabed topography. Marine Biology 147: 1-11

Madsen, P.T., Johnson, M., de Soto, N.A., Zimmer, W.M.X. & Tyack, P. 2005. Biosonar performance of foraging beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 181-194

Mead, J.G. 1989. Beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon. pp. 349-430 in Ridgway, S.H. & Harrison, R.J. (eds). Handbook of Marine Mammals. Volume 4. River dolphins and the larger toothed whales. London : Academic Press 442 pp.

Paterson, R.A., Quayle, C.J. & van Dyck, S.M. 1993. A humpback whale calf and two subadult dense beaked whales recently stranded in southern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 291-297

Watson, L. 1981. Sea Guide to Whales of the World. London : Hutchinson 302 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Blainville's Beaked Whale)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Jun-2024		11-Jun-2024	MOVED
11-Jun-2024		11-Jun-2024	MOVED
16-Dec-2010		16-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
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