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CMS: Tasmacetus shepherdi, Tasman beaked whale
제목: CMS: Tasmacetus shepherdi, Tasman beaked whale
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CMS: Tasmacetus shepherdi, Tasman beaked whale


German: Shepherdwal
Spanish: Ballena picuda de Shepherd
French: Tasmacète

Drawing of T. shepherdi © Wurtz-Artescienza
(see links).
1. Description
Tasmacetus shepherdi
is a rare animal, known from
only 21 strandings in the southern hemisphere. Adults are between
6 and 7 m long and have a full set of functional teeth, as opposed
to all other beaked whale species. Colouring is dark grey dorsally
with a white ventral field extending towards the back on both anterior
and posterior sides of the flippers (Mead, 2002).

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Shepherd's Beaked Whale (Tasmacetus shepherdi) also commonly called the Tasman Beaked Whale or simply the Tasman Whale is a cetacean of the family Ziphidae. The whale has hardly been studied at all. No certain identification has been made at sea and only 28 specimens have been recorded stranded.

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