Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast 1876

Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast 1876, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876: 9.

Type Locality: New Zealand, "the Chatham Islands ... from specimens stranded... on the Waitangi beach of the main island of that group." .

Vernacular Names: Gray's Beaked Whale.

Synonyms: Mesoplodon australis Flower 1878; Mesoplodon haasti Flower 1878 .

Distribution: Southern hemisphere: cold-temperate waters; one specimen found in the Netherlands (Boschma, 1950:779).

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

Discussion: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 c).