The Species Black List

Mesoplodon ginkgodens

ginkgo-toothed beaked whale

The ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) is known from fewer than twenty strandings within the Indian and Pacific oceans, specifically on the coasts of Japan, California, the Galápagos Islands, New South Wales, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and in the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea.

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

1, no restriction stated

Class

Mammalia

Realm

Oceanic

Locality

Strait of Malacca

As IUCN records it

Mesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958