Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 361

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scientific name

Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882
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Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882:392, figs. 1, 2.

TYPE LOCALITY: "found upon the sea-beach of Lewis Island in the Dampier Archipelago, North-western Australia."

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere: circumpolar, antarctic to temperate waters, occasionally into tropical waters. May occur in the W North Pacific.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: burmeisterei .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989b). Moore (1968) erected the subgenus Frasercetus for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Ziphiidae

Genus

Hyperoodon

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