16 BALiSNA. RHACHIANECTES. 



Bakeua aleoiitiensis Van Ben., Bull. Acad. Belg., xxv, 1868, p. 16. 



Balccna sieboldii Elliot, Syn. N. Amer. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 

 1901, p. 8. Zool. Ser. 

 Siebold's Baleen Whale. 



Type locality. Coast of Japan. 



Geogr. Distr. North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, coast of North 

 America from California to the Aleutian Islands, and westward to 

 longitude 150.° 



30. Baleena mysticetus Linnaeus. 



BalcBua mysticetus Linn., Faun. Seuc, 11, 1761, p. 16. Elliot, 

 Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, iQoi.p. 8. Zool. Ser. 



Bakena groenlandica Linn., Mus. Ad. Frid., i, p. 51. 



Baleena mysticetus pittekajeyisis Malmg., Bikang. Svensk. Ak. 

 Handl., viii, 1883, fig. 

 Bowhead. Arctic Right Whale. 



Type locality. Greenland Seas. 



Geogr. Distr. Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, south to north latitude 

 64° on east coast of Greenland, and also to poast of Labrador; in 

 Bering Sea to north latitude 55°, and in Sea of Okhotsk to latitude 54°. 



31. Balaena kuzira (Gray). 



Megaptera kuzira Gray, Cat. Seals and Whales, 1866, p. 130. 

 Bakena allamak Pall., Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., i, 183 1, p. 288. 

 Bakena antarctic a Temm., Faun. Japon., 1842, p. 21, pi. 30. (nee 



F. Cuv.) 

 Bakena australis Schrenck, Reis. Amur-Land, i, 1858, p. 193. 



(nee Gray.) 

 Bakena kuzira Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 



p. 9. Zool. Ser. 

 Gray's Japanese Baleen Whale. 

 Type locality. Coast of Japan. 

 Geogr. Distr. Japan Seas, North Pacific, Bering Sea. 



Genus 16. Rliachiaiiectes. 



Rhachianectes Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., 1869, p. 15. 

 Type Agaplielus glaucus Cope. 



32. Rhachianectes glaucus (Cope). 



Agaphelus glaucus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., i868, p. 159 ; 

 1869, p. 15. 



