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Gray's beaked whale
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mesoplodon grayi, Gray’s beaked whale
species of mammal
Species
Gray's beaked whale
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetartiodactyla
- FamilyZiphiidae
Habitatmarine
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Mesoplodon
- Image
- Head of stranded Gray's beaked whale.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Mesoplodon grayi
- Commons category
- Mesoplodon grayi
- taxon common name
- grays beaked whale
- taxon author citation
- Von Haast, 1876
- taxon range
- Brazil
- short name
- M. grayi
- time period
- Holocene
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Encyclopedic overview
Gray's beaked whale (Mesoplodon grayi), sometimes known as Haast's beaked whale, the scamperdown whale, or the southern beaked whale, is one of the better-known members of the genus Mesoplodon. This species is fairly gregarious and strands relatively frequently for a beaked whale. In the Māori language, this species is called hakurā or iheihe.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gray's beaked whale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.