Deep-Sea taxon details
Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)
137121 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137121)
accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
(of ) 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. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137121 on 2025-05-21
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137121 on 2025-05-21
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(of ) 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]
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]
Present 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]
Unreviewed
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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 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] |
