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Zifio de Shepherd, Shepherd's Beaked Whale, Tasmacetus shepherdi - English
URL: http://marenostrum.org/vidamarina/animalia/mamiferos/cetacea/clasificacion/zshep

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The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans - Shepherd's beaked whale - English
URL: http://www.ea.gov.au/coasts/species/cetaceans/actionplan/whaleap5v.html

Apparently prefers subantarctic (ca 1–8°C) and adjacent temperate (ca 10–20°C) deep oceanic waters. Possible northward movement in summer, approaching continental seas.

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Tasmacetus - English
URL: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/mammalia/cetacea/ziphiidae/tasmacetus/

Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver, 1937.

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Tasmacetus shepherdi (Shepherd's Beaked Whale) - English
URL: http://www.cetacea.org/shepherd.htm

Cetacea - the world's whales, dolphins and porpoises all on one site. Shepherd's Beaked Whale is a little-known, and little-seen, species. More than half the sightings and strandings have originated from New Zealand, with the remainder coming from Australia, Argentina, and Chile.

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Tasmacetus shepherdi: Narrative - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/tasmacetus/t._shepherdi$narrative

Based on stomach contents and locations where Tasmacetus shepherdi have washed ashore, this species is likely benthic and inhabits temperate waters of the southern hemisphere.

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Tasmacetus: Shepherd's Beaked Whale - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walkers_mammals_of_the_world/cetacea/cetacea.ziph

The single species, T. shepherdi, is known by 13 specimens stranded in Australia, New Zealand, Stewart and Chatham islands near New Zealand, the Juan Fernandez Islands off central Chile, the Valdez Peninsula of east-central Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Isla Gable east of Tierra del Fuego; and by a probable sighting of a live individual off New Zealand.

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