Spade-toothed whale

Spade-toothed whale
A beached male of the species found in New Zealand in 2024
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Ziphiidae
Genus: Mesoplodon
Species:
M. traversii
Binomial name
Mesoplodon traversii
(Gray, 1874)
Locations and dates of specimens
Synonyms

Dolichodon traversii Gray, 1874
Mesoplodon bahamondi Reyes, Van Waerebeek, Cárdenas and Yáñez, 1995

The spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is the rarest species of beaked whale. Most specimens found have been in the South Pacific, mostly in New Zealand, but they have also been found in Chile. It is a species of which there is very little known.

  1. ^ Pitman, R.L.; Taylor, B.L. (2020). "Mesoplodon traversii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T41760A50383956. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T41760A50383956.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Archived from the original on 3 February 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.