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CMS: Tasmacetus shepherdi, Tasman beaked whale
Subject: CMS: Tasmacetus shepherdi, Tasman beaked whale
Source: http://www.cms.int/reports/small_cetaceans/data/...
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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).

Comments
Guest
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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