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    Species Accepted

    Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)

    North Atlantic beaked whale
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Mesoplodon
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Baleine-a-bec de Sowerby French
      Ballena de Pico de Sowerby Spanish
      Flosser German
      Morfil Gylfinog Sowerby Welsh
      Morfilod Gylfinog Sowerby Welsh
      Mésoplodon de Sowerby French
      Nehvalur Faroese
      North Atlantic beaked whale English
      North Sea beaked whale English
      Norðursnjáldri Icelandic

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Würsig, Bernd, J. G. M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds. (2018). Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 3rd Edition.
      Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. (2000). Common Names of Mammals of the World.
      Mead, James G., and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (2005). Order Cetacea. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd Ed., Vol. 1.
      Rice, Dale W. (1998). Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. Special Publications of the Society for Marine Mammals, No. 4.
      Sowerby, J. (1804). Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linean Society. Transactions of the Linnaean Society, London. 7: 310.
      Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. (1993). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd Ed., 3rd Printing.
      Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. (1987). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, No. 166.
      Wilson, Don E., and Sue Ruff, eds. (1999). The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals.
      PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
      Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol.7 p.310

      Citation

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