Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais 1855

Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais 1855, Hist. Nat. Mammiferes, Vol. 2: 320.

Type Locality: English Channel, "qui provient d'un individu harponné dans la Manche." .

Vernacular Names: Gervais' Beaked Whale.

Synonyms: Mesoplodon gervaisi (Deslongchamps 1866) .

Distribution: Aside from the type, one specimen from Ireland, one specimen from Guinea-Bissau, and three records from Ascension Isl, it is only known from the Western North Atlantic: temperate to tropical waters.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 c) and Norman and Mead (2002, Mammalian Species, 688). The type was not harpooned, as stated by Gervais, but was found as a "cadavre" (Deslongschamps, 1866:177).