Etymology

Andrews' beaked whale

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Named after American scientist Roy Chapman Andrews who first described this species in 1908 from a specimen collected at New Brighton Beach, Canterbury Province, New Zealand, in 1904.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.