Summary ²

Blainville's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the Dense-beaked Whale, is the widest ranging mesoplodont whale and perhaps the most documented. The name "densirostris" is a Latinized form of "dense beak". Off the northeastern Bahamas, the animals are particularly well documented, and a photo identification project started sometime after 2002.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) NOAA Photo Library, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaked_Whale.jpg
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoplodon_densirostris

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