Species: Mesoplodon stejnegeri

Stejneger's Beaked Whale
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Mammalia

    Order

    Cetacea

    Family

    Ziphiidae

    Genus

    Mesoplodon

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    baleine à bec de Stejneger
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Whales and Dolphins
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae - Mesoplodon - as separate species.
    Short General Description
    A beaked whale.
    Habitat Type Description
    Marine
    Migration
    false - false - false
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Diet includes squid.
    Ecology Comments
    Has been observed in groups of up to 15 individuals of various sizes (IUCN 1991).
    Length
    500
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G3
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1998-01-27
    Global Status Last Changed
    1997-04-09
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    Cold temperate to subarctic North Pacific (based on stranding records); apparently distributed across much of the southern Bering Sea, south to the northern Sea of Japan and to Monterey, California; strandings are fairly common in the Aleutians (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983).
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