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Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
Subject: Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
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Spitssnuitdolfijn - Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens).JPG
Resolution: 3024x2016 File Size: 4822662 Bytes Date: 2012:08:23 18:25:03 Camera: DSLR-A900 (SONY ) F number: f/6.3 Exposure: 1/2000 sec Focal Length: 2800/10 Upload Date: 2017:02:10 00:24:57

Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)


Description
English: sowerby's beaked whale
Date 23 August 2012, 18:25:03
Author Pj.vanderlinde
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spitssnuitdolfijn.JPG

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. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Ziphiidae, Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae, Genus: Mesoplodon, Species: Mesoplodon bidens Sowerby, 1804.

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