The Species Black List
Mesoplodon traversii
spade-toothed beaked whale
The spade-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is considered to be the rarest of the beaked whales, and was long known only from a partial jaw found washed ashore on Pitt Island, New Zealand in 1872.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 2, restricted, extent unclear
- Class
- Mammalia
- Realm
- Oceanic
- Locality
- Pitt Island
- As IUCN records it
- Mesoplodon traversii (Gray, 1874)