WoRMS taxon details

Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)

137121  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137121)

accepted
Species
Aodon dalei Lesson, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinorhynchus sowerbyi Gray, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus micropteron Tomilin, 1957 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus micropterus G. Cuvier, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus sowerbi Eschricht, 1851 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delphinus sowerbyi Desmarest, 1822 · unaccepted (synonym)
Diodon sowerbaei Bell, 1837 · unaccepted (synonym)
Diodon sowerbi Hamilton, 1837 · unaccepted (synonym)
Diodon sowerbyi Lesson, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)
Heterodon dalei Lesson, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Mesodiodon sowerbyi Duvernoy, 1851 · unaccepted (synonym)
Mesoplodon sowerbensis Gervais, 1859 · unaccepted (synonym)
Micropteron bidens Malm, 1871 · unaccepted (synonym)
Nodus dalei Gray, 1850 · unaccepted (synonym)
Physeter bidens Sowerby, 1804 · unaccepted (basionym)
Ziphius sowerbiensis Gray, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, terrestrial
(of Physeter bidens Sowerby, 1804) Sowerby, J. (1804). Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linean Society. <em>Transactions of the Linnaean Society, London.</em> 7: 310., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756528 [details]   
Note Brodie House, Elginshire, Scotland, U.K.  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Brodie House, Elginshire, Scotland, U.K. [details]
Distribution North Atlantic (Eastern and Western), including North sea; considered rare in Canadian waters  
Distribution North Atlantic (Eastern and Western), including North sea; considered rare in Canadian waters [details]
Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2024). World Cetacea Database. Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137121 on 2024-10-07
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original description  (of Physeter bidens Sowerby, 1804) Sowerby, J. (1804). Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linean Society. <em>Transactions of the Linnaean Society, London.</em> 7: 310., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756528 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]   

additional source van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [details]   

additional source Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]   

additional source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]   

additional source Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Holotype "A stranded male, skull only preserved, originally in Sowerby's museum [,]now in the museum of the University of Oxford; collected 1800 by Mr. James Brodie" (Hershkovitz, 1966).  [details]

IUCN Red List Category Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Predators None known. [details]

Type locality Brodie House, Elginshire, Scotland, U.K. [details]

Unverified
Diet squid and small fish [details]

Dimensions Length: male 18' (5.5 m), female 16 1/2' (5 m), at birth 8' (2.4 m) [details]

Distribution North Atlantic (Eastern and Western), including North sea; considered rare in Canadian waters [details]

Habitat offshore [details]

Habitat also in shelf areas [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
Danish almindelig næbhval  [details]
Dutch spitsdolfijngewone spitssnuitdolfijn  [details]
English Sowerby's beaked whaleNorth Sea beaked whaleNorth Atlantic beaked whale  [details]
French mesoplodon de Sowerbydauphin de Hâvredauphin de Dalebaleine à bec de Sowerby  [details]
German Sowerbys WalFlosser  [details]
Icelandic svinhvalur  [details]
Italian mesoplodonte di Sowerby  [details]
Lithuanian atlantinis dvidantis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Δίδοντο μεσόπλοδον  [details]
Norwegian spidshvalen  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål spisshvalnordspisshval  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk spisskvalnordspisskval  [details]
Russian ремнезуб атлантическийremnezub soverbiatlanticheski remhezub  [details]
Slovenian sowerbyjev dvozob  [details]
Spanish zifio de Sowerbyballenato de hoccico de Sowerby  [details]
Swedish Sowerbys näbbval  [details]
Ukrainian кит СовербиАтлантичний ремнезуб  [details]