Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) planifrons Flower 1882

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 740

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scientific name	Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) planifrons Flower 1882
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Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) planifrons Flower 1882 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882: 392.

Type Locality: "found upon the sea-beach of Lewis Island in the Dampier Archipelago, north-western Australia." .

Vernacular Names: Southern Bottlenose Whale.

Synonyms: Hyperoodon (Frasercetus) burmeisterei Moreno 1895 .

Distribution: Southern hemisphere: circumpolar, antarctic to temperate waters, rarely into tropical waters. May occur in the W North Pacific.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 b). Moore (1968) erected the subgenus Frasercetus for this species.

Mead, J. G. 1989 b. Bottlenose whales- - Hyperoodon ampullatus (Forster, 1770) and Hyperoodon planifrons Flower, 1882. Pp. 321 - 348, in Handbook of marine mammals: River dolphins and the larger toothed whales (S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds.). Academic Press, London, 1: 1 - 442.

Moore, J. C. 1968. Relationships among the living genera of beaked whales with classifications, diagnoses and keys. Fieldiana: Zoology, 53 (4): 209 - 298.