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Eschrichtius glaucus (Cope) * (gray whale) 



?1777. Balaena gibbosa Erxleben, Systema regni animalis . . . , p. 610. 

 (Based on "scrag whale" of Dudley, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. 

 33, p. 258, 1725. Coast of New England. ) 



1868. Agaphelus glaucus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 20, 

 p. 160. (Monterey Bay, Calif.) 



1869. Rhachianectes glaucus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 21, 

 p. 15. 



1937. Eschrichtius gibbosus Van Deinse and Junge, Temminckia, vol. 2, 



p. 181. 

 1952. Eschrichtius glaucus Schevill, Breviora, Mus. Corap. Zool., No. 7, p. 3, 

 Sept. 29, 1952. (Specific identity of gibbosus with glaucus regarded as 

 not demonstrated.) 

 Type locality. — Monterey Bay, Calif. Range. — In eastern North Pacific from 

 Bering Strait and Bering Sea south to lagoons of Baja California and to about 

 latitude of Jalisco, Mexico (Kellogg, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1928, pp. 

 482-483, Nov. 19, 1929) . 



Family Balaenopteridae 



Subfamily balaenopterinae (finback whales) 



Genus BALAENOPTERA " Lacepede 

 1804. Balaenoptera Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des cetacees, . . . , p. xxxvi. 

 (Type, by subsequent selection, Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 

 pt. 3, p. 395, May 1865, Balaena rostrata Fabricius = Balaenoptera acutoro- 

 strata Lacepede.) 



Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus) * (common finback whale) 



1758. [Balaena] physalus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75. 

 1862. Balaenoptera physalus Schlegel, De Dieren van Nederland, . . . , 



Zoogdieren, p. 101. 

 1884. Physalus antiquorum, Sibbaldius tuberosus, S. tectirostris, and S. 

 veliferus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App. Circ. 29), p. 591, Nov. 

 29, 1884. 

 1901. [Balaenoptera velifera] copei Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 45, Zool. 



Ser., vol. 2, p. 13, Mar. 6, 1901. (Shumagin Islands, Alaska.) 

 Type Locality. — Spitzbergen Seas (See Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1911, pt. 1, p. 156, Mar. 22, 1911). Range.— In western North Atlantic from 

 Iceland (Saemundsson, Mammalia, in Zoology of Iceland, vol. 4, pt. 76, p. 29, 

 1939) and Baffin Bay as far north as Melville Island on west coast of Greenland 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 92, Jan. 24, 1947) south 

 to Gulf of Mexico (Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 13, 

 pp. 254-256, Nov. 22, 1943) and Caribbean Sea; in western North Pacific from 

 Bering Sea (Preble, North Amer. Fauna No. 46, p. 116, June 27, 1923) south 

 at least to waters off Baja California (Scammon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 21, No. 1, p. 53, April 1869) . 



" Revised by True, Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl., vol. 33, pp. 107-210, Aug. 29, 1904. 



