Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758
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Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76.
TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali.", restricted to Netherlands, Middenpiat by Husson and Holthuis (1974) .
DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: antarctic and cold-temperate waters (northern hemisphere) to tropical waters.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered.
SYNONYMS: australasianus , australis , macrocephalus .
COMMENTS: Neotype designated by Husson and Holthuis (1974:212). Linnaeus used both catodon and macrocephalus in the 10th edition. P. catodon has line priority. See Hershkovitz (1966a:121), Schevill (1986, 1987b), Holthuis (1987), and Rice (1989, who also reviewed the species).
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