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  CMS: Mesoplodont whales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
- Hooker SK, Baird RW (1999) Observations of Sowerby's beaked whales, Mesoplodon bidens, in the Gully, Nova Scotia.
- Mead JG (1989) Beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon.
- Palacios DM (1996) On the specimen of the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon ginkgodens, from the Galapagos Islands.
www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/Mesoplodon.htm   (1944 words)

  
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Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean "whale"; its original meaning was more general, "large sea animal".
Tasman Beaked Whale (Shepherd's Beaked Whale) Tasmacetus shepherdi
Indo-Pacific Beaked Whale (Longman's Beaked Whale), Indopacetus pacificus
www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/cetacea.html   (186 words)

  
 Cruise report of cetacean survey in the Scotia Sea from British Antarctic Survey vessel James Clark Ross, 7 January to ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fin whales were generally observed north of the SACCF (Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front) whereas minke whales were predominantly observed to the south of this and towards the southern ends of the transects.
The long-held view on the occurrence of Gray’s beaked whale is that it covers a circumglobal distribution in temperate or cold temperate waters of the southern hemisphere between 30º and 45º (e.g.
Perpendicular distances to minke whale sightings (distances are shown as the mid-point of 250m wide bins).
www.ccpo.odu.edu /Research/globec/iwc_collab/JR82_rev2.htm   (3065 words)

  
 Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
Sowerby's beaked whales have the typical Mesoplodon body shape, but tend to have a very long (for mesoplodonts) beak and a bulge on the forehead.
These beaked whales are known only from the colder waters of the North Atlantic, from at least Massachusetts to Labrador in the west, and from Iceland to Norway in the east.
MEAD, J. Beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon.
seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/180515   (449 words)

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