Summary ²

Gervais' beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus), sometimes known as the Antillian beaked whale, Gulf Stream beaked whale, or European beaked whale (from which its scientific name is derived) is the most frequently stranding type of mesoplodont whale off the coast of North America. It has also stranded off South America and Africa.

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1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Mammals, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=mammals&irn=10548633
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoplodon_europaeus

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