WoRMS taxon details

Indopacetus pacificus (Longman, 1926)

231418  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231418)

accepted
Species
Mesoplodon pacificus Longman, 1926 · unaccepted (Basionym)
marine, terrestrial
(of Mesoplodon pacificus Longman, 1926) Longman, H. A. (1926). New records of Cetacea, with a list of Queensland species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8:266--278. [details]   
Note Off Mackay, eastern Queensland, Australia.  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Off Mackay, eastern Queensland, Australia. [details]
Distribution Offshore tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.  
Distribution Offshore tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Indopacetus pacificus (Longman, 1926). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231418 on 2024-03-29
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original description  (of Mesoplodon pacificus Longman, 1926) Longman, H. A. (1926). New records of Cetacea, with a list of Queensland species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8:266--278. [details]   

context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]   

basis of record Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Dalebout, M. L., G. J. B. Ross, C. S. Baker, R. C. Anderson, P. B. Best, V. G. Cockcroft, H. L. Hinsz, V. Peddemors, and R. L. Pitman. (2003). Appearance, distribution, and genetic distinctiveness of Longman's beaked whale, <i>Indopacetus pacificus</i>. Marine Mammal Science 19:421--461. [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution Offshore tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [details]

Holotype Skull in Queensland Museum, No. J. 2106, collected 1882 and presented by E.W. Rawson [details]

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

Type locality Off Mackay, eastern Queensland, Australia. [details]

From other sources
Habitat tropical to warm temperate [details]
LanguageName 
English tropical bottlenose whaleLongman's beaked whaleIndo-Pacific beaked whale  [details]
French mesoplodon de Longmanbaleine à bec de Longman  [details]
Japanese タイヘイヨウアカボウモドキ  [details]
Spanish zifio de Longman  [details]