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SPECIES Indopacetus pacificus
Author: | Longman, 1926. | Citation: | Mem. Queensl. Mus., 8(3): 269, pl. 43. | Common Name: | Tropical Bottlenose Whale | Type Locality: | Australia, Queensland, "found at Mackay". | Distribution: | Indian Ocean and W South Pacific: tropical waters. | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient. | Comments: | Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c). Commonly included in Mesoplodon (Heyning, 1989a; J. G. Mead, 1989c). We prefer ‘tropical bottlenose whale’, as used by Pitman et al. (1999), to the older name ‘Longman’s beaked whale’. |
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