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Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)
Synonym:
Family: Ziphiidae
Order: Cetacea
English: Sowerby's beaked whale, North Atlantic beaked whale
French: Mésoplodon de Sowerby
Spanish: Ballena de pico de Sowerby
German: Sowerby-Zweizahnwal (There's a German version of this page!)
Norwegian: Spisshval, Sowerbys spisshval (There's a Norwegian version of this page!)
Migration: possibly migratory
Regions: Europe, North America

 distributionmap of Mesoplodon bidens 

More about whales and dolphins from:
Riede, K. (2001): Global Register of Migratory Species. Weltregister wandernder Tierarten. (p. 64-68)

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(Last update: 13.7.2007 by A. Tappenhölter)