Author: | Flower, 1882. |
Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882: 392, figs. 1, 2. |
Common Name: | Southern Bottlenose Whale |
Type Locality: | "found upon the sea-beach of Lewis Island in the Dampier Archipelago, north-western Australia." |
Distribution: | Southern hemisphere: circumpolar, antarctic to temperate waters, rarely into tropical waters. May occur in the W North Pacific. |
Status: | CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd). |
Comments: | Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989b). Moore (1968) erected the subgenus Frasercetus for this species. |
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Offspring: | Synonyms:
burmeisterei Moreno, 1895
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