Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Ziphiidae > Genus Mesoplodon

Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Physeter Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesoplodon*	Gervais, 1850	accepted genus name
*Dioplodon*	Gervais, 1855	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: almindelig næbhval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone spitssnuitdolfijn; spitsdolfijn sources: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Beheerseenheid Mathematisch Model Noordzee en Schelde-estuarium: Oostende

English: North Atlantic beaked whale; North Sea beaked whale; Sowerby's beaked whale sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: baleine à bec de Sowerby; dauphin de Dale; dauphin de Hâvre; mesoplodon de Sowerby

German: Flosser; Sowerbys Wal

Greek: Δίδοντο μεσόπλοδον sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: svinhvalur

Italian: mesoplodonte di Sowerby sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: atlantinis dvidantis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: spidshvalen

Norwegian Bokmål: nordspisshval; spisshval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: nordspisskval; spisskval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: atlanticheski remhezub; remnezub soverbi; ремнезуб атлантический sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: sowerbyjev dvozob sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: ballenato de hoccico de Sowerby; zifio de Sowerby

Swedish: Sowerbys näbbval sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Атлантичний ремнезуб; кит Соверби

Literature

additional source	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. 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. 723--743.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
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.
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. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Mesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137121