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Within Vinony's link graph, Mesoplodon bidens is referenced by 193 other articles, and connects out to Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Mesoplodon and Turkey.
It is catalogued under topics including Cetaceans of the Atlantic Ocean, Fauna listed on CITES Appendix II and Fauna of Scandinavia.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least ConcernNorth Atlantic beaked whale
Mesoplodon bidens
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyHyperoodontidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 275
- With media
- 290
- Family
- Hyperoodontidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CMN, USNM, NMSZ, NRM
- Recorded in
- France, Belgium, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Mesoplodon
- Named after
- James Sowerby
- Image
- Mesoplodon bidens British mammals (Pl. 46) (21866206616).jpg
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- taxon name
- Mesoplodon bidens
- Commons category
- Mesoplodon bidens
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons gallery
- Mesoplodon bidens
- taxon common name
- vaca marina de sowerby
- gestation period
- 12
- taxon range
- Brazil
- short name
- M. bidens
- time period
- Holocene
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Encyclopedic overview
Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens), also known as the North Atlantic or North Sea beaked whale, is a species of toothed whale. It was the first mesoplodont whale to be described. James Sowerby, an English naturalist and artist, first described the species in 1804 from a skull obtained from a male that had stranded in the Moray Firth, Scotland, in 1800. He named it bidens, which derives from the two teeth present in the jaw, now known to be a very common feature among the genus.
Physical description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mesoplodon bidens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.