Mesoplodon bidens
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Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby 1804)
[Physeter] bidens Sowerby 1804, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 7: 310.
Type Locality: UK, Scotland, "stranded on the estate of James Brodie, Esq. F. L. S., in the county of Elgin.".
Vernacular Names: Sowerby's Beaked Whale.
Synonyms: Mesoplodon dalei (Lesson 1827); Mesoplodon micropterus (G. Cuvier 1829); Mesoplodon sowerbensis (de Blainville 1817); Mesoplodon sowerbiensis (Gray 1846); Mesoplodon sowerbyi (Desmarest 1822).
Distribution: North Atlantic and Baltic Sea: temperate waters. Occurrence 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.
Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient.
Discussion: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 c).
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/347D58E1F49DD54E115EEC1EB4531449 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/111D54156EC2EE8CA00EA79B76269B17 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231535437 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Sowerby
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Ziphiidae
- Genus
- Mesoplodon
- Species
- bidens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Gray, J. E. 1846. On the cetaceous animals. Pp. 13 - 53, in The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843 (Sir J. Richardson and J. E. Gray, eds.) [1844 - 1875]. E. W. Janson, London, 2 vols.
- van Bree, P. J. H. 1975. On the alleged occurrence of Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804) (Cetacea, Ziphioidae) in the Mediterranean. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 80: 226 - 228.
- Casinos, A., and S. Filella. 1981. Notes on cetaceans of the Iberian coasts. IV. A specimen of Mesoplodon densirostris (Cetacea, Hyperoodontidae) stranded on the Spanish Mediterranean littoral. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 29: 61 - 67.
- Brunelli, G., and G. Fasella. 1929. Su di un rarismo cetaceo spiaggiato nel litorale di Nettuna. Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Roma, 8: 85 - 87.
- Bonde, R. K., and T. J. O'Shea. 1989. Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy, 70 (2): 447 - 449.
- Mead, J. G. 1989 c. Beaked whales of the genus- - Mesoplodon. Pp. 349 - 430, in Handbook of marine mammals: River dolphins and the larger toothed whales (S. H. Ridgway and R. Harrison, eds.). Academic Press, London, 4: 1 - 442.