High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale and the Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position. The species has had a long history riddled with misidentifications, which are now mostly resolved. A skull and jaw found on a beach in Mackay, Queensland, Australia in 1882 provided the initial description by H. A. Longman in 1926, but some authorities insisted on classifying it as a True's beaked whale or a female bottlenose whale instead of a new species. A whale washed up near Danae, Somalia in 1955 was processed into fertilizer with only the skull remaining, and biologist Joseph C. Moore used it to effectively demonstrate it was a unique species. However, there was a considerable debate as to whether the whale belonged in the genus Mesoplodon or not. The next major development happened when a...