Physeter catodon Linnaeus 1758
Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali.", restricted to Netherlands, Middenpiat by Husson and Holthuis (1974). DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: antarctic and cold-temperate waters (northern hemisphere) to tropical waters. STATU...
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Summary: | Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:76. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceano Septentrionali.", restricted to Netherlands, Middenpiat by Husson and Holthuis (1974). DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: antarctic and cold-temperate waters (northern hemisphere) to tropical waters. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered. SYNONYMS: australasianus, australis, macrocephalus. COMMENTS: Neotype designated by Husson and Holthuis (1974:212). Linnaeus used both catodon and macrocephalus in the 10th edition. P. catodon has line priority. See Hershkovitz (1966a:121), Schevill (1986, 1987b), Holthuis (1987), and Rice (1989, who also reviewed the species). Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 359, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.7352970 |
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