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Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882 
AphiaID: 343900

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) > Hyperoodon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hyperoodon Lacépède, 1804
Synonymised
taxa		  Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) planifrons Flower, 1882
 Hyperoodon burmeisterei Moreno, 1895 (synonym)
 Hyperoodon planifronts Lahille, 1905 (synonym)
 Hyperoodon rostratum Liouville, 1913 (synonym)
 Hyperoodon rostratus Lillie, 1915 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Flower, F. C. (1882). Proceedings of the Zoological Society (London), 1882:392. [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: 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 
Afrikaans suidelike stompneuswalvis  [details]
English Antarctic bottlenose  [details]
English flat-headed bottle-nosed whale  [details]
English Flower's bottle-nosed whale  [details]
English Pacific beaked whale  [details]
English southern bottlenose whale  [details]
French hyperodon antarctique  [details]
French hyperoodon austral  [details]
Portuguese baleia nariz de garrafa do sul  [details]
Portuguese boto gladiador  [details]
Portuguese golfinho focinho de garrafa  [details]
Spanish ballena de nariz de botella del sur  [details]
Spanish delfin de frente plana  [details]
Spanish nariz de botella  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Antarctica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Southern Ocean [details]
Subantarctic Waters (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
World Oceans (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: oceanic [details]

Holotype: Waterworn and mutilated cranium, British Museum (Natural History), no. 1814a--82.3.24.1 [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]

Type locality: Lewis Island, Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia [details]
Image 
Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) planifrons
Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) planifrons
added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-05 18:36:27
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:343900
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-04-11 11:37:23Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
2009-04-01 16:57:11Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Hyperoodon planifrons. 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=343900 on 2013-06-19
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