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Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the dense-beaked whale, is believed to be the widest ranging mesoplodont whale.The French zoologist Henri de Blainville first described the species in 1817 from a small piece of jaw — the heaviest bone he had ever come across — which resulted in the name densirostris (Latin for "dense beak").
To understand the hunting and foraging behavior of beaked whales, researchers used sound and orientation recording devices on two species: Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) and Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris). These whales hunt by echolocation in deep water (where the majority of their prey is located) between ...
Mesoplodont whales are 16 species of toothed whale in the genus Mesoplodon, making it the largest genus in the cetacean order. [2] Two species were described as recently as 1991 (pygmy beaked whale) and 2002 (Perrin's beaked whale), and marine biologists predict the discovery of more species in the future. [3]
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"Since 1978, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center has responded to a total of 19 beaked whales of four different species, including Gervais’, True’s, Cuvier’s and Blainville’s," center staff ...
Andrews' beaked whale: Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908: DD: Unknown 1 t (1.1 short tons) Blainville's beaked whale: Mesoplodon densirostris Blainville, 1817: LC: Unknown Deraniyagala's beaked whale: Mesoplodon hotaula P. E. P. Deraniyagala, 1963: DD: Unknown Indian and South Pacific 4–5 m (13–16 ft) [cetacean needed] Gervais' beaked whale
He was the taxonomic authority of numerous zoological species, extinct and extant; including the eponymous Blainville's beaked whale, Mesoplodon densirostris. In the field of herpetology , he adopted Pierre André Latreille 's proposal of separating Amphibia from Reptilia , and then (1816) developed a unique arrangement in regards to sub ...
According to the DOC, the spade-toothed whale was first documented in 1874 from lower jaw and teeth samples collected on Pitt Island, around 500 miles off New Zealand’s west coast.