Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908 . Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 24:203, figs. 1-5, pl. 13.

TYPE LOCALITY: "collected at New Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand " .

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere, South Pacific and Indian oceans, cold-temperate waters of Australia and New Zealand. The record from Kerguelen Isis (Robineau, 1973) is erroneus (J. G. Mead, 1989c).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c). McCann (see Mead et al., 1982) felt that M. bowdoini was synonymous with M. stejnegeri .