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Sowerby's Beaked Whale

Mesoplodon bidens

Classification

Family
Ziphiidae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 69Germany · 24United Kingdom · 13France · 4Belgium · 3Spain · 1