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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Ziphiidae
--> GENUS Mesoplodon
SPECIES Mesoplodon hectori
| Author: | Gray, 1871. | | Citation: | Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 8: 116. | | Common Name: | Hector’s Beaked Whale | | Type Locality: | New Zealand, Wellington, "killed in Tatai [sic] Bay, Cook's Straits" (= Titai Bay). | | Distribution: | Southern hemisphere: temperate waters. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient. | | Comments: | Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c). The North Pacific form was found to be a new species, Mesoplodon perrini Dalebout et al., 2002. |
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