Order Cetacea
Author
James G. Mead
Author
Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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364
book chapter
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Indopacetus pacificus
(Longman, 1926)
.
Mem. Queensl. Mus., 8(3):269
, pl. 43.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
Australia
,
Queensland
, "found at Mackay"
.
DISTRIBUTION: Indian Ocean and W South Pacific: tropical waters.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c); known only from two skulls, the second from
Somalia
. Commonly included in
Mesoplodon
(Heyning, 1989a; J. G. Mead, 1989c).