Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908

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 : 362

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scientific name	Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews, 1908
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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 .