Mesoplodon grayi Von Haast, 1876 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Zealand, "the Chatham Islands. .. from specimens stranded ... on the Waitangi beach of the main island of that group."

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: cold-temperate waters; one specimen found in the Netherlands (Boschma, 1950:779).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: australis, haasti .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c).