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Hector's beaked whale
Hector's beaked whale (''Mesoplodon hectori''), is a small mesoplodont living in the Southern Hemisphere. This whale is named after Sir James Hector, a founder of the colonial museum in Wellington, New Zealand. Some specimens washed up and been sighted in California and once thought to belong to this species have subsequently been shown through analysis of mtDNA and detailed morhological examination to be a new species, Perrin's beaked whale (Dalebout ''et al.'' 2002). The species has rarely been seen in the wild.
Some data supposedly referring to this species, especially juveniles and males, turned out to be based on the misidentified specimens of Perrin's beaked whale - especially since the adult male of Hector's beaked whale was only more recently described. Dalebout ''et al.'' (2002) specifically list Mead (1981), Mead (1984), Mead & Baker (1987), Mead (1989), Baker (1990), Jefferson ''et al.'' (1993), Mead (1993), Carwardine (1995), Reeves and Leatherwood (1994), Henshaw ''et al.'' (1997) and Messenger and McQuire (1998) as erroneously attributing data from the new species to Hector's beaked whale.
==Taxonomy==
The English taxonomist John Edward Gray first named the species ''Berardius hectori'' in 1871, based on a specimen (a 2.82 m (ft ) male) collected in Titahi Bay, New Zealand in January, 1866.〔Gray, J. E. (1871). Notes on the ''Berardius'' of New Zealand. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', 4th series 8: 115-117.〕 The following year, 1872, the English anatomist William Henry Flower placed it in the genus ''Mesoplodon'', while in 1873 the Scottish scientist James Hector assigned the same specimen to the species ''M. knoxi''. The species remained in the genus ''Mesoplodon'' until 1962, when Charles McCann, a vertebrate zoologist at the Dominion Museum in Wellington, argued that the species only represented a juvenile of ''Berardius arnuxi''. The beaked whale specialist Joseph Curtis Moore (1968) and J. G. B. Ross (1970) contested this designation, arguing that ''M. hectori'' was a valid species. Adult male specimens from the 1970s and 1980s confirmed the species' specific status.〔Mead, J. G., and Alan N. Baker (1987). Notes on the rare Beaked Whale, ''Mesoplodon hectori'' (Gray). ''Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand'', Vol. 17, Num. 3, pp. 303-312.〕
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