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(True, 1889, p. 139), Pavilion Key (USNM 37264), Dry Tortugas, Beach Bush 

 Key (USNM 257414), and Pensacola, Fla. (USNM 241182). Stranded pilot 

 whales have been recorded near mouth of Bayou Lafourche, La. (Lowery, Occ. 

 Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 13, p. 257, Nov. 22, 1943), and on 

 coast of Texas as far west as Aransas Pass (Gunter, Journ. Mamm., vol. 27, No. 4, 

 p. 377, Nov. 25, 1946) . 



Globicephala scammonii Copef * 



1869. Globioccphalus scammonii Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 21, p. 21. 



1884. Globiocephalus scammoni True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, (App., 

 Circ. 29), p. 589, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Ten miles off Pacific coast of Baja California, Mexico, in 

 lat. 31° N. Range. — In eastern North Pacific recorded from Kanatak on 

 Avestern shore of Alaska Peninsula (Orr, Wasmann Journ. Biol., vol. 9, No. 2, 

 p. 147, 1951), Hecate Strait, Queen Charlotte Islands (Osgood, North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 21, p. 25, Sept. 26, 1901) , near Santa Catalina Islands, Calif. (Nidevar, 

 California Fish and Game, vol. 7, No. 1, p. 64, January 1921), Cape San Lucas, 

 Baja California, and Gulf of California (Scammon, The marine mammals of 

 the northwestern coast of North America, p. 87, 1874), and Gulf of Dulce on 

 coast of Guatemala (Scammon, loc. cit.). 



Genus PHOCOENA G. Cuvier 

 1816. Phocoena G. Cuvier, Le regne animal, . . ., vol. 1, p. 279, December 

 1816. (Type, Delphinus phocoena Linnaeus. For date of publication, see 

 Sherborn, Index animalium, sect. 2 (1801-1850), pt. 1, p. XLI, 1922.) 



Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus)* (harbor porpoise) 



1758. [Delphinus] phocoena Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 77. 



1884. Phocacna communis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , 

 p. 590, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1947. Phocoena phocoena Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 85, Jan. 24, 1947. 



Type Locality. — Swedish Seas (see Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, 

 pt. 1, p. 158, Mar. 22, 1911) . Range. — In western North Atlantic recorded from 

 Iceland (Saemundsson, Mammalia, in Zoology of Iceland, vol. 4, pt. 76, p. 20, 

 1939), Davis Strait (Brown, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pt. 3, pp. 550-551, 

 March 1869), southern waters of Cumberland Sound (Soper, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 25, No. 3, p. 251, Nov. 8, 1944) , St. Lawrence River, Nova Scotia, on Bay 

 of Fundy (Leighton, Nat. Hist., vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 410-416, 458, June 1937), 

 near Mount Desert Island, Maine (Manville, Journ. Mamm., vol. 23, No. 4, 

 p. 397, Jan. 4, 1943), off Portsmouth Harbor, N. H. (Jackson, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 3, No. 1, p. 14, Feb. 8, 1922), and south at least to Delaware River (Fowler, 

 Science, new ser., vol. 42, p. 220, Aug. 13, 1915). 



Phocoena vomerina Gillf* 



1865. Phocaena vomerina Gill, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, 



p. 178. 

 1942. Phocoena vomerina Scheffer, Murrelet, vol. 23, No. 2, p. 45, Aug. 14, 



1942. 



