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Mesoplodon bidens
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Description
Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804). Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 7:310.
TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, "stranded on the estate of James Brodie, Esq. F. L. S., in the county of Elgin."
DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic and Baltic Sea: temperate waters. Occurence in the Mediterranean Sea was discussed by van Bree (1975), who considered the evidence unconvincing; however, Casinos and Filella (1981) supported a report from the Italian coast (Brunelli and Fasella, 1929). There is one report from the Gulf of Mexico (Bonde and O'Shea, 1989) that is also considered a stray.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS: dalei, micropterus, sowerbyensis, sowerbyi.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989c).
Notes
Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 362, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0744FFA8FFDAFFA8E742F9543B21FFEF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/FB7D87D0FFD7FFA5E64BFD5F3F3DFA3C (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/205119836 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193271/taxon/FB7D87D0FFD7FFA5E64BFD5F3F3DFA3C.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ziphiidae
- Genus
- Mesoplodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Sowerby
- Species
- bidens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993