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Taxonomy
Mesoplodon mirum was named by True (1913). It is extant. Its type specimen is USNM 175019, a skeleton (skull & partial skeleton). Its type locality is Beaufort Harbor, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in North Carolina.
It was corrected as Mesoplodon mirus by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Moore (1968), Mead (1989), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Lambert and Louwye (2016).
It was corrected as Mesoplodon mirus by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Moore (1968), Mead (1989), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Lambert and Louwye (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1913 | Mesoplodon mirum True p. 1 |
| 1963 | Mesoplodon mirus Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
| 1966 | Mesoplodon mirus Hershkovitz p. 130 |
| 1968 | Mesoplodon mirus Moore p. 277 |
| 1989 | Mesoplodon mirus Mead p. 358 |
| 1998 | Mesoplodon mirus Rice p. 89 |
| 2005 | Mesoplodon mirus Mead and Brownell p. 742 |
| 2008 | Mesoplodon mirus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. FIg. 5 |
| 2016 | Mesoplodon mirus Lambert and Louwye |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Mesoplodon mirus True 1913 [True's beaked whale]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004 | |||||