Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 741

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scientific name

Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908
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Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908

Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908 , Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 24: 203.

Type Locality: "collected at New Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand ".

Vernacular Names: Andrew's Beaked Whale.

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, 1989 c) .

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 c). McCann (see Mead et al., 1982) felt that M. bowdoini was synonymous with M. stejnegeri .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Ziphiidae

Genus

Mesoplodon

Loc

Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Mesoplodon bowdoini

Andrews 1908: 203
1908
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