On the Recommended Vernacular Names of Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991 (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) in Several World Languages

Koen Van Waerebeek^1,15*, Julio C Reyes², Eduardo R Secchi³, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto^4,5, Fernando Félix⁶, Carlos Guerra-Correa⁷, Jean-Luc Jung⁸, Hong-yu Lai⁹, Ann-Katrien Lescrauwaet^10,1, Jeffrey C Mangel^4,11, Wenshi Pan¹², Michela Podest๳, Fabian Ritter¹⁴, Gian Paolo Sanino¹⁵, Marina Sequeira¹⁶, Salvatore Siciliano¹⁷, Marie-Françoise Van Bressem¹ and José L Yañez¹⁸

¹Peruvian Centre for Cetacean Research/Centro Peruano de Estudios Cetológicos (CEPEC), Museo de Delfines, Lima 20, Peru

²Areas Costeras y Recursos Marinos (ACOREMA), Calle San Francisco 253, 201-B, Pisco, Peru

³Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

⁴ProDelphinus, Calle José Galvez 780e, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru

⁵Facultad de Biologia Marina, Universidad Científica del Sur, Villa El Salvador, Lima 42, Peru

⁶Museo de Ballenas, Avenida Enríquez Gallo s/n, Salinas, Ecuador

⁷Centro Regional de Estudios y Educación Ambiental (CREA-UA), Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile

⁸Laboratoire BioGeMME, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

⁹Caritas Institute of Higher Education, 2 Chui Ling Lane, Tseung Kwan O, N.T., Hong Kong

¹⁰Flanders Marine Institute/Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), Wandelaarkaai 7, Oostende, Belgium

¹¹Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

¹²School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China

¹³Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, corso Venezia 55-20121 Milano, Italy

¹⁴M.E.E.R. e.V., Bundesallee 123, 12161 Berlin, Germany

¹⁵Centre for Marine Mammals Research Leviathan (CMMR), Santiago, Chile

¹⁶Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, Avenida da República 16-16B, 1050-191 Lisboa, Portugal

¹⁷Laboratório de Enterobactérias, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

¹⁸Curator Emeritus, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN), Santiago, Chile

*Corresponding Author : Koen Van Waerebeek
Peruvian Centre for Cetacean Research/Centro Peruano de Estudios Cetológicos (CEPEC), Museo de Delfines, Lima 20, Peru
Tel: +51 989180339
E-mail: corewam@yandex.com

Received: August 16, 2018 Accepted: August 29, 2018 Published: September 05, 2018

Citation: Van Waerebeek K, Reyes JC, Secchi E, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Félix F, et al. (2018) On the Recommended Vernacular Names of Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991 (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) in Several World Languages. J Mar Biol Oceanogr 7:4. doi: 10.4172/2324-8661.1000195

On the Recommended Vernacular Names of Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991 (Cetacea, Ziphiidae) in Several World Languages

Relevant and distinctive vernacular species names are essential to assure efficient communication among scientists under field and laboratory conditions, but also among non-specialists including the public at large. We provide a rationale for recommended vernacular and alternative names for the lesser beaked whale Mesoplodon peruvianus Reyes, Mead & Van Waerebeek, 1991 in 11 major world languages which encompass most of cetacean literature. Principal criteria for name endorsement are unambiguity and nonrepetitiveness with respect to other aquatic mammal species.