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- Title
Note on James Sowerby and the discovery of Sowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens.
- Authors
Waller, G. N. H.
- Abstract
James Sowerby's life in London, his zoological works, and his natural history collections are briefly reviewed. The location and date of the stranding and subsequent description of the type specimen of Mesoplodon bidens is discussed. This and other information pertaining to the two original publications by Sowerby is reviewed and the history of the type cranium and mandible is described.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; SOWERBY, James; SCIENTIFIC illustrators; NATURALISTS; NATURAL history catalogs &; collections; BEACHING of whales; BEAKED whales; TYPE specimens (Natural history); BRODIE, James; HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
Archives of Natural History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0260-9541
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/anh.2013.0174