Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908

Mesoplodon bowdoini Andrews 1908, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 24: 203.

Type Locality: "collected at New Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand ".

Vernacular Names: Andrew's Beaked Whale.

Distribution: Southern hemisphere, South Pacific and Indian oceans, cold-temperate waters of Australia and New Zealand. The record from Kerguelen Isls (Robineau, 1973) is erroneous and is the fossil rostrum commonly known as Mesoplodon longirostris (J. G. Mead, 1989 c) .

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 c). McCann (see Mead et al., 1982) felt that M. bowdoini was synonymous with M. stejnegeri .