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GENUS Mesoplodon
| Author: | Gervais, 1850. | | Citation: | Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (Paris), ser. 3, 14: 16. | | Type Species: | Delphinus sowerbensis de Blainville, 1817 (= Physeter bidens Sowerby, 1804). | | Comments: | Mesoplodon Gervais, 1850 and Physeter bidens Sowerby, 1804 were conserved; Nodus, Micropteron, and Mikropteron were suppressed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1985b). |
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