Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Ziphiidae > Genus Mesoplodon

Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): nordspisshval; spisshval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: almindelig næbhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone spitssnuitdolfijn; spitsdolfijn sources: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Beheerseenheid Mathematisch Model Noordzee en Schelde-estuarium: Oostende

English: North Atlantic beaked whale; North Sea beaked whale; Sowerby's beaked whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Sowerby's Beaked Whale sources: Charles Hussey

French: baleine à bec de Sowerby; dauphin de Dale; dauphin de Hâvre; mesoplodon de Sowerby

German: Flosser; Sowerbys Wal

Greek: Δίδοντο μεσόπλοδον sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: svinhvalur

Italian: mesoplodonte di Sowerby sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: atlantinis dvidantis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: nordspisshval; spidshvalen; spisshval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: nordspisshval; spisshval sources: Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 7:310

Norwegian Nynorsk: nordspisskval; spisskval sources: Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 7:310

Nynorsk (Norwegian): nordspisskval; spisskval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: dziobowal dwuzębny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: atlanticheski remhezub; remnezub soverbi; ремнезуб атлантический sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: sowerbyjev dvozob sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballenato de hoccico de Sowerby; ballenato hocicudo de Sowerby; zifio de Sowerby sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: Sowerbys näbbval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: Soverby iki dişli balinası ; Sowerbi iki dişli balinası sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Атлантичний ремнезуб; кит Соверби; Ремнезуб атлантичний sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: morfil gylfinog Sowerby

Literature

original description	Sowerby, J. (1804). Transactions of the Linnaean Society, London 7:310.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (164 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2014). Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804). In: Perrin, W.F. (2014) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137121