Mesoplodon perrini, Perrin's beaked whale : fisheries
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Mesoplodon perrini   Dalebout, Mead, Baker, Baker & van Helden, 2002

Perrin's beaked whale

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Mesoplodon perrini  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Mammalia | Cetartiodactyla | Ziphiidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic.  Subtropical; 90°N - 10°N, 170°W - 180°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Pacific: USA.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Dalebout, M.L., J.G. Mead, C.S. Baker, A.N. Baker and A.L. van Helden 2002 A new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini sp. n. (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) discovered through phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Marine Mammal Science 18:577-608. (Ref. 7802)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Endangered (EN) (C2a(ii)); Date assessed: 23 August 2020

CITES status (Ref. 108899)


CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 2.2 - 8.3, mean 4 (based on 71 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.