Species profile—Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's beaked whale)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Ziphiidae (beaked whales) → Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's beaked whale)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Ziphiidae (beaked whales)
- Scientific name
- Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville, 1817)
- Common name
- Blainville's beaked whale
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1018
- Alternate name(s)
- dense-beaked whale
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1018
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.