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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Ziphiidae
--> GENUS Mesoplodon
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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