Blainville's beaked whale

phylum	Chordata	Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the dense-beaked whale, is the widest ranging mesoplodont whale and perhaps the most documented. The French zoologist Henri de Blainville first described the species in 1817 from a small piece of jaw — the heaviest bone he had ever come across — which resulted in the name densirostris (Latin for "dense beak"). Off the northeastern Bahamas, the animals are particularly well documented, and a photo identification project started sometime after 2002. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Beaked whales
class	Mammalia
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Cetacea
suborder	Odontoceti
family	Ziphiidae
genus	Mesoplodon
species	M. densirostris

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  CollectA 88761 Blainville's Beaked Whale