Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770) . In Kalm, Travels into N. Am., 1:18.

TYPE LOCALITY: "See Mr. Pennant's [1769] British Zoology Vol. 3, p. 43, where it is called the beaked whale, and very well described;" Pennant (1769:43) gave Maldon (England) as the locality and 1717 as the date stranded .

DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic: arctic to cold-temperate waters. The Mediterranean record represents a stray (J. G. Mead, 1989b).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: butskopf, latifrons, rostratus .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989b).