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SPECIES Mesoplodon bowdoini

Author:Andrews, 1908.
Citation:Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 24: 203, figs. 1-5, pl. 13.
Common Name:Andrew’s Beaked Whale
Type Locality:"collected at New Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand".
Distribution:Southern hemisphere, South Pacific and Indian oceans, cold-temperate waters of Australia and New Zealand. The record from Kerguelen Isls (Robineau, 1973) is erroneous and is the fossil rostrum commonly known as Mesoplodon longirostris (J. G. Mead, 1989c).
Status:CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Comments:Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c). McCann (see Mead et al., 1982) felt that M. bowdoini was synonymous with M. stejnegeri.
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