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Mesoplodont whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Some other whale species share this property, and together they are known as the beaked whales. The mesoplodont whales are the fourteen species of whale that make up the genus Mesoplodon, making it the single largest genus in the cetacean order. Longman's Beaked Whale (also known as the Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale) is also sometimes classed in the Mesoplodon genus. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blainville's_Beaked_Whale

Indopacetus. Who is Indopacetus? What is Indopacetus? Where is Indopacetus? Definition of Indopacetus. Meaning of Indopacetus. Longman's Beaked Whale, commonly also called the Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale either has the specific name Indopacetus pacificus or Mesoplodon pacificus, depending whether the animal is classified as a mesoplodont whale or not. The features of this unknown whale - in particular its length and well-defined crease between the melon and the beak - do not match those of any other member of the Ziphiid family in the area and do match what little has been inferred about Longman's Beaked Whale. However there have been 45 reports of an unidentified cetacean locally known as the Tropical Bottlenose Whale in the temperate to tropic waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans [4] (including some photographs - see [1]). www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Indopacetus

WHALE DEATH PROMPTS WARNING Centre director Padraig Duignan said it looked as though the strap-toothed whale -- a member of the beaked whale family -- was hit by a boat propeller, fracturing its upper jaw and causing a large gash, which would have bled profusely. One way to determine the species was to look at the tooth placement in grown males, but with this whale the tooth had not erupted yet, he said. Dr Duignan said whales and dolphins were often difficult to see in the water, but boaties needed to be careful if they were travelling in areas where they were known to be. www.whalewatch.co.nz /_disc3/00000247.htm

Amazing Whale Facts Whales belong to the mammalian order Cetacea, and are divided into two groups, Baleen (or whale-bone) whales and Toothed whales. Whales are able to control the flow of blood to the heart and brain so that they do not suffer from lack of oxygen on deep dives. Whales are able to grow to such enormous sizes because their weight is supported by the water. www.coopsjokes.com /amz/amzwhale.htm

Factsheets - Strap-toothed Whale The Strap-toothed Whale feeds primarily on squid, deep-sea fish, crustaceans and possibly echinoderms (sea urchins and starfish) found on the sea floor. For Strap-toothed Whales, the colour pattern of juveniles may be indistinct. The common name of this whale refers to the unusual strap-like teeth of adult males. www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/strap_toothed.htm

Whales and Dolphins Gervais' Beaked Whale, Hubbs' Beaked Whale, Unidentified Beaked Whale, Strap-toothed Beaked Whale, Gray's Beaked Whale, Cuvier's Beaked Whale, Southern Bottlenose Beaked Whale, Longman's Beaked Whale, Northern Bottlenose Whale, Arnoux's Beaked Whale, Beluga, Narwhal, Whaling, entrapment in nets, habitat destruction, competition with humans for food, human disturbances, and marine pollution have all had their effects on whales and dolphins. When the whales feed, they swim with their mouths open, trapping the minute plankton and krill which is the main component of most baleen whales' diet. www.geocities.com /whalesanddolphins2002

Facts on Dolphins The strange-looking strap-toothed beaked whale has only two teeth in its lower jaw that wrap up and over its upper jaw preventing it from opening its mouth very wide. Toothed whales eat a variety of fish, squid, and crustaceans. Baleen is a stiff structure with bristles that enables the whales to strain plankton and small fish from the water. www.dolphinquest.org /learningquest/dolphinfacts/dolphins/info1.htm

Massey News Article title PALMERSTON NORTH - A male juvenile beaked whale that was the victim of man-made misadventure was identified as a rare strap toothed whale after an autopsy at Massey’s Wildlife Health Centre recently. Three strap toothed whales which have washed up on New Zealand beaches recently have been autopsied and the information gathered added to the whale databases at Te Papa and the Wildlife Health Centre at Massey University. A 6m adult female strap toothed whale was found washed up on a beach 16km north of Gisborne recently. masseynews.massey.ac.nz /_2001/publications_2001/Massey_News/April/April_23/stories/whale.html

On an unidentified beaked whale found stranded in Kagoshima A 6.5 m beaked whale was found stranded in Kagoshima-ken (prefecture) on the 26 th of July, 2002. Unidentified beaked whales possibly Longman's beaked whale were sighted by various researchers in various regions of the Indopacific (Pitman, et al., 1999; Pitman, 2002). We did not know any whale species from Japanese waters with this body size and external appearance. svrsh1.kahaku.go.jp /sendai/indexE.html

ABC Sci-Tech - 08/02/02 : Scientists travel to Gippsland to study rare whale skeleton The skeleton of the whale has been taken to Melbourne Museum and Melbourne University students will conduct tests on its internal organs to establish a cause of death. Vet-Science Masters Student, Verne Dove says the whale's blubber was unusually thin and it may have had a form of cancer. The five-metre long female beaked whale had been at McGaurans Beach, south of Sale, for 10 days. www.abc.net.au /news/scitech/2002/02/item20020206122505_1.htm

California Diving News: CA Marine Life - Whales Furthermore, in a southern hemisphere species, the Strap-toothed Beaked Whale (M. layardii), a male's teeth, may with age, become long and tusk-like. Another good indicator that beaked whales are not dining with their teeth is the propensity for barnacles to grow on the teeth of some species. Male beaked whales evidently use those teeth as "jousting weapons." Additionally, some of these assorted marks appear to be battlescars left from shark and killer whale attack. www.saintbrendan.com /cdnaug/velde8.html

Dolphins & Whales The open ocean beaked whales boast some of the most unusually shaped teeth among the odontocetes, yet their function is basically unknown. Small whale fisheries in Japan and Norway have hunted Baird's beaked whale, Cuvier's beaked whale, and the North Atlantic bottlenose whale, but science has only a passing acquaintance with most of the Ziphiidae. Such a location is no help in catching the slippery squid on which the Blainville's and most other beaked whales feed. web.ukonline.co.uk /jj.griffiths/1024/fins/Dolphins4.html

WhaleTimes Fishin' for Facts~Beaked Whales Gervais' beaked whale, Gray's beaked whale, Stejneger's beaked whale, Tasman (Shepherd's) beaked whale Baird's beaked whale, like other beaked whales, they are deep divers and have been known to dive up to 2,400 meters. In older whales the teeth curve over the jaw making it impossible for the whales to open their mouth very far. www.whaletimes.org /beaked.htm

Acoustical Pipes In Beaked Whales? This strap-toothed whale is one of the beaker whales. Acoustical pipes were also invented by close relatives of the beaked whales, the dolphins. P. Zioupos and J. Currey, at the University of York, have drawn attention to the rostrum bone that forms the beaklike upper jaw of Blaineville's beaked whale. www.science-frontiers.com /sf113/sf113p05.htm

World review of interactions between marine mammals and fisheries The whaling maps of Townsend (1935) show that large concentrations of this whale were to be found between 30 and 40°S, west of the Cape of Good Hope. He suggests that around 4% of the catch may be lost to killer whales and sharks, adding that the crews state killer whale presence may increase or depress catch rates, depending on whether the fish are frightened onto or off the bait. The sei whale population in area 57 is unknown but may be presumed to be similar to that of Antarctic area IV, between 10 and 20 000. www.fao.org /docrep/003/x6860e/X6860E05.htm

Whale FAQ Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises all belong to the same order, but not to the same sub-order and not to the same family, to have a summary view of this check our Cetaceans Order Table Remember stranded whales, dolphins or porpoises are highly subject to overheating and sunburns, do your very best but get help as quickly as possible. Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises are found stranded every year, alive or dead. www.dolphin-isl-greenware.org /marine_lab/blue_hangar/egwhalfq.html

BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Strap-toothed whale, Layard's beaked whale Strap-toothed whales are large, with strong, dark and light markings and scarring. Strap-toothed whales live in temperate seas of the Southern Hemisphere. Male strap-toothed whales have two huge teeth growing out of their bottom jaw. www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/118.shtml

A New Whale Living? But in most species only the adult males have teeth: two prominent fangs in the lower jaw, whose distinctive shape has given several their common names — the strap-toothed whale, the spade-toothed whale, the gingko-toothed whale. The true identity of the four whales that washed ashore in the 1970s was revealed in the end by genetic studies that began half a world away, in an effort to trace illegal trade in protected cetacean species. The whale in question was described by Merel Dalebout of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and James Mead, curator of marine mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, whose joint article will appear next month in the journal Marine Mammal Science. www.faultline.org /place/2002/06/beaked.html

CMS: Mesoplodon layardii, Layard's beaked whale One of the largest of the beaked whales, the Strap-toothed Whale is also one of the few Mesoplodon species that can be readily identified at sea. The northernmost records of Layard's beaked whale stem from strandings along the southern Brazilian coast (31 - 32 °S; Pinedo et al. see "Genus Mesoplodon - Beaked whales: Introduction and Sources" www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/m_layardii/m_layardii.htm

Creation Moments - Radio They suspect that toothed whales and dolphins can create explosively loud, focused sound beams under water which literally stun the fish they eat. While a whale with a tusk nearly as long as its body might be a dramatic sight, it must be difficult for the narwhal to hunt down its food. The narwhal is a small whale, reaching perhaps 10 feet in length, which has an eight foot spiral tusk coming out of its head. www.creationmoments.com /radio/printable_transcript.asp?track_id=1061

Whales on the Net - Discovering Whales There are two very different groups of cetaceans: Baleen whales and Toothed whales. Whales and dolphins are a group of mammals called cetaceans that spend their entire lives in water. Whales and dolphins are among the most intelligent and mysterious creatures on our earth. www.omplace.com /omsites/discover

AES Applied Ecology Solutions The whale was covered in a number of scars mainly around the rear half of the body and the flanks. Museum of Victoria staff tethering the whale to a bulldozer to remove it from the beach. The whale stranded on a rising tide near the entrance to the Great Ocean Road, between Aireys Inlet and Lorne. www.onthe.net.au /ecologysolutions/stbwstrand.html

Other Information A whale's behavior of slapping the flukes against the surface of the water. The biological name for the group of mammals that includes all whales, dolphins, and porpoises; individual members of the group are called cetaceans. The nostril of a whale located on the top of the animals head. www.wcug.wwu.edu /~narf/dolp/otherinfo.shtml

DOC Media Release The whale is of the same family as a strap-toothed beaked whale found dead on Waiinu beach, north of Wanganui last month. The whales take their name from their unusual “beaked” or pointed snout, with the Shepherd’s Beaked Whale considered unusual because it has a large number of teeth – far more than other beaked whales. Mr Williams said the whales were a rare species and did not wash up or strand very often, so little was known about them. www.doc.govt.nz /Whats-New/presult.asp?prID=1434

CETACEA: Mesoplodon layardii (Straptoothed Whale) The Straptoothed Whale was named by British biologist John Gray in 1865, after seeing drawings by the South African Museum's curator, E. Layard, after whom it was eventually named. The Straptoothed Whale occurs in cold temperate waters. Although there are more records about the Straptoothed Whale than any other of the Mesoplodon species, it is still a little-known and little-seen cetacean. www.cetacea.org /strapt.htm

Strap-toothed beaked whale However, strandings of strap-toothed beaked whales have been recorded on the Australian coast, particularly in southern Australia. Strap-toothed beaked whales have a long, slender beak sloping up to a low forehead. In males, a strap-shaped tooth projects from each side of the lower jaw. www.bayweb.com.au /whales/_species/straptoothedbeakedwhale.html

WDCS Australia Strap-toothed whales have black bodies with a large white patch covering the top of the body at the front which goes round the neck and under the chest. Strap-toothed whales are known to inhabit cold waters around the coasts of New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, South Africa, Namibia, the Falkland Islands, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Strap-toothed whales are one of the largest beaked whales. www.wdcs.org.au /info_details.php?select=1105315762

cetaceans Several species of cetacean have also been observed at sea in the region, including blue whale, fin whale, killer whale, hourglass dolphin, strap-toothed beaked whale, spectacled porpoise, humpback whale, sperm whale, Minke whale, long-finned pilot whale, southern bottlenose whale, Commerson’s dolphin, dusky dolphin, Arnoux’s beaked whale and southern right whale. The HIMI Marine Reserve lies within the Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary, which was established under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in 1979 to provide freedom from disturbance for migrating and breeding great whales in an area where whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction. Cetaceans are any members of the group of marine mammals that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. www.heardisland.aq /nature/marine/cetaceans.html

Cetaceacetera quiz The most distinctive aspect of these whales is their teeth; most specimens have only two or four oversized teeth. The largest family of whales are the beaked whales. Right and gray whales have been fished almost to extinction, although the pygmy right whale has never been exploited. www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=124148&origin=

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