Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby 1804)
- Dataset
- Order Cetacea
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Ziphiidae
- genus
- Mesoplodon
- species
- Mesoplodon bidens
conservation
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
discussion
COMMENTS: Reviewed by J. G. Mead (1989 c).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic and Baltic Sea: temperate waters. Occurence 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.
materials_examined
TYPE LOCALITY: UK, Scotland, " stranded on the estate of James Brodie, Esq. F. L. S., in the county of Elgin. "
synonymic_list
SYNONYMS: dalei, micropterus, sowerbyensis, sowerbyi.
Name
- Homonyms
- Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby 1804)