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--> FAMILY Ziphiidae
--> GENUS Hyperoodon
--> SUBGENUS Hyperoodon
SPECIES Hyperoodon (Hyperoodon) ampullatus
| Author: | Forster, 1770. | | Citation: | In Kalm, Travels into N. Am., 1: 18. | | Common Name: | Northern Bottlenose Whale | | Type Locality: | "See Mr. Pennant's [1769] British Zoology Vol. 3, p. 43, where it is called the beaked whale, and very well described;" Pennant (1769:43) gave Maldon (England) as the locality and 1717 as the date stranded. | | Distribution: | North Atlantic: arctic to cold-temperate waters. The Mediterranean record represents a stray (J. G. Mead, 1989b). | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). | | Comments: | Subgenus Hyperoodon. Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989b). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
butskopf (Bonnaterre, 1789)
latifrons Gray, 1846
rostratus (Müller, 1776)
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