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The spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is the rarest species of beaked whale. As of a find in 2024, [update] only six specimens have been confirmed, all in the South Pacific, five in New Zealand and one in Chile.
Spade-toothed whale: Mesoplodon traversii, syn. Mesoplodon bahamondi Gray, 1874: DD: Unknown 1.2 t (1.3 short tons) Stejneger's beaked whale: Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885: NT: Unknown 1.5 t (1.7 short tons) Strap-toothed whale: Mesoplodon layardii Gray, 1865: LC: Unknown 2 t (2.2 short tons) True's beaked whale: Mesoplodon mirus True, 1913 ...
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] A new species was described in ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted.Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery.
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. Other ...
The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...
The toothed whales (also called odontocetes, systematic name Odontoceti) are a clade of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales with teeth, such as beaked whales and the sperm whales. 73 species of toothed whales are described.
The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.