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Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908 
AphiaID: 231430

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Ziphiidae (Family) > Mesoplodon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850
Sources  original description: Andrews, R. C. (1908). Description of a new species of Mesoplodon from Canterbury Province, New Zealand. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:203--215. [details]

basis of record: Shirihai, H. 2002 A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean Alula Press FI 510 pp [details]

additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Andrew's beaked whale  [details]
French baleine à bec de Bowdoin  [details]
French mesoplodon de Andrew  [details]
Spanish zifio de Andrews  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Subantarctic Waters [details]
World Oceans [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: circum-global in Southern Ocean [details]

Holotype: Mounted skeleton of adult male, American Museum of Natural History, New York, no. 35027, purchased 1904 from Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, New York. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Type locality: Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231430
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-17 09:54:26Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231430 on 2013-05-24
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