The descriptive text, below the map, is from the Cornish Red Data Book (2009). The map on this web page depicts the organisms distribution and shows the records made pre-2000 and those made since.
Range & Status
This species is found only in the north Atlantic and occurs mainly in deep water off the continental slope. It is most commonly recorded off western Norway and in the Barents Sea. It also occurs in small numbers around the Northern Isles and Western Isles of Scotland, in the northern North Sea, along the continental shelf break west of Ireland (UK Biodiversity Group, 1999).
Strandings
A single stranding in Cornwall in 1965 - note that this was at Millbrook, Cornwall, not
Devon as reported in Fraser (1974).
Sightings
2005 (1).
Conservation
Listed as Data Deficient. (Taylor et al ., 2008c. Hyperoodon ampullatus . In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
I.J. Bennallick, S. Board, C.N. French, P.A. Gainey, C. Neil, R. Parslow, A. Spalding and P.E. Tompsett. eds. 2009. Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. 2nd Edition.Croceago Press. The Cornish Red Data Book Project was led by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Federation for Biological Recorders (CISFBR). The full text and species accounts (minus the maps) are available on the CISFBR website.
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