Mesoplodon
mammal genus
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- In beaked whale: Paleontology and classification
Genus Mesoplodon 15 species found worldwide, all possessing a single pair of teeth. Bahamonde’s beaked whale (M. bahamondi), first described in 1995, is known only on the basis of a damaged skull from the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile. In 2002 M. perrini…
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