Description
English: Two female or young adult Gervais' Beaked Whales in North Carolina's Gulf Stream.
Date 26 May 2016, 23:51:20
Author Rufous-crowned Sparrow https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rufous-crowned_Sparrow
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gervais%27_Beaked_Whale.jpg

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. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Ziphiidae, Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae, Genus: Mesoplodon, Species: Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855)