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Sowerby's Beaked Whale

Mesoplodon bidens (species), “Beaked Whale”, “North Atlantic Beaked Whale”, “Sowerby’s Whale”, “Sowerby’s North Sea Beaked Whale”

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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.

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