Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 363

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scientific name

Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871)
status

 

Mesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871) . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 8:116.

TYPE LOCALITY: New Zealand, Wellington, "killed in Tatai [sic] Bay, Cook's Straits" (= Titai Bay) .

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Hemisphere, North Pacific: temperate waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: knoxi .

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Ziphiidae

Genus

Mesoplodon