Editing Mesoplodon (section)

==Species==
* [[Andrews' beaked whale]] (''M. bowdoini'') <small>Andrews, 1908</small>
* [[Blainville's beaked whale]] (''M. densirostris'') <small>Blainville, 1817</small>
* [[Deraniyagala's beaked whale]] (''M. hotaula'') <small>[[Paules Edward Pieris Deraniyagala|Deraniyagala]], 1963</small><ref>{{Harvnb|Dalebout|Baker|Steel|Thompson|2014}}</ref>
* [[Gervais's beaked whale]] (''M. europaeus'') <small>Gervais, 1855</small>
* [[Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale]] (''M. ginkgodens'') <small>Nishiwaki and Kamiya, 1958</small>
* [[Gray's beaked whale]] (''M. grayi'') <small>von Haast, 1876</small>
* [[Hector's beaked whale]] (''M. hectori'') <small>Gray, 1871</small>
* [[Hubbs' beaked whale]] (''M. carlhubbsi'') <small>Moore, 1963</small>
* [[Perrin's beaked whale]] (''M. perrini'') <small>Dalebout, Mead, Baker, Baker & van Helden, 2002</small>
* [[Pygmy beaked whale]] (''M. peruvianus'') <small>Reyes, Mead, and Van Waerebeek, 1991</small>
* [[Sowerby's beaked whale]] (''M. bidens'') <small>Sowerby, 1804</small>
* [[Spade-toothed whale]] (''M. traversii'') <small>Gray, 1874</small>
* [[Stejneger's beaked whale]] (''M. stejnegeri'') <small>True, 1885</small>
* [[Strap-toothed whale]] (''M. layardii'') <small>Gray, 1865</small>
* [[True's beaked whale]] (''M. mirus'') <small>True, 1913</small>
*[[Ramari's beaked whale]] (''M. eueu'') <small>Carroll ''et al'', 2021</small>{{sfn|Carroll|McGowen|McCarthy|Marx|2021}}

[[Longman's beaked whale]] (''Indopacetus pacificus'', also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale or the tropical bottlenose whale) was originally assigned to ''Mesoplodon'', but Joseph Curtis Moore placed it in its own genus, ''[[Indopacetus]]'', a taxonomic assignment which has been followed by all researchers.<ref name="Pitman-char-taxo" />

Four extinct species of ''Mesoplodon'' are known: ''M.&nbsp;longirostris''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bianucci |first=Giovanni |date=1997 |title=The Odontoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from Italian Pliocene. Systematics and phylogenesis of Delphinidae |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292704391_The_Odontoceti_Mammalia_Cetacea_from_Italian_Pliocene_Systematics_and_phylogenesis_of_Delphinidae |journal=Palaeontographia Italica}}</ref> ''M.&nbsp;posti'',<ref>Olivier Lambert and Stephen Louwye (2016). "[[A new early Pliocene species of Mesoplodon: a calibration mark for the radiation of this species-rich beaked whale genus]]". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 (2): e1055754. {{doi|10.1080/02724634.2015.1055754}}.</ref> ''M.&nbsp;slangkopi''.<ref>G. Bianucci, O. Lambert, and K. Post. 2007. [[A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa]]. Geodiversitas 29(4):561-618</ref> and ''M.&nbsp;tumidirostris''.<ref>Miyazaki, N.; Hasegawa, Y. 1992: [[A new species of fossil beaked whale, Mesoplodon tumidirostris sp. nov. (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) from the Central North Pacific]]. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A), 18: 167–174.</ref>

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File:Mesoplodon bidens British mammals (Pl. 46) (21866206616).jpg|[[Sowerby's beaked whale]], ''Mesoplodon bidens''; a male, with conspicuous teeth in the lower jaw
File:Andrews' Beaked Whale (neonate, beachwashed) (cropped).JPG|A stranded newborn [[Andrews' beaked whale]], ''M.&nbsp;bowdoini''
File:Hubbs' beaked whale skull.jpg|Skull of a [[Hubbs' beaked whale]] (''M. carlhubbsi'')
File:Beaked Whale.jpg|[[Blainville's beaked whale]] (''M. densirostris'') in the [[Bahamas]]
File:Gervais' Beaked Whale.jpg|[[Gervais's beaked whale]] (''M. europaeus'') in the [[Gulf Stream]] off [[North Carolina]]
File:Researchers conduct autopsy on stranded beaked whale.jpg|Autopsy of a stranded [[Gray's beaked whale]] (''M.&nbsp;grayi'')
File:First underwater video of True's beaked whales underwater.ogv|[[True's beaked whale]] (''M. mirus'') off the [[Azores]]
File:Mesoplodon traversii.svg|The [[Spade-toothed whale]] (''M. traversii'') was only morphologically described in 2012.
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