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Hyperoodon planifrons Flower 1882

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 361, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Family
Ziphiidae
Genus
Hyperoodon
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Flower
Species
planifrons
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993