Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali.", restricted to Netherlands, Middenpiat by Husson and Holthuis (1974) .

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: antarctic and cold-temperate waters (northern hemisphere) to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: australasianus, australis, macrocephalus .

COMMENTS: Neotype designated by Husson and Holthuis (1974:212). Linnaeus used both catodon and macrocephalus in the 10th edition. P. catodon has line priority. See Hershkovitz (1966a:121), Schevill (1986, 1987b), Holthuis (1987), and Rice (1989, who also reviewed the species).