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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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