Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908 
AphiaID: 231430

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Ziphiidae > Mesoplodon

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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231430 on 2013-05-20