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5. Notice of a Second Specimen of Sowerby' Whale (Mesoplodon bidens), from Shetland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

W. Turner
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The Shetland seas are frequented by several species of Ziphioid whales. Since the year 1870 I have come into possession of, and placed in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh, the skull of Ziphius cavirostris, the skull and a large part of the skeleton of Hyperoodon rostratus, and the skull and almost complete skeleton of Mesoplodon bidens. They were all captured on the north-east side of the mainland of Shetland.

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Proceedings 1184-85
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 13 , 1886 , pp. 279 - 281
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1886

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note * page 79 Described and figured by me in Trans. Boy. Soc. Edin., May 20, 1872, vol. xxvi.

note * page 279 Described and figured by me in Trans. Boy. Soc. Edin., May 20, 1872, vol. xxvi.

note † page 279 Described by me to Eoyal Society, Edinburgh, Jan. 30,1882. See Proceedings of that date, also Jour, of Anat. and Phys., April 1882Google Scholar.