CETACEA: BALAENOPTERIDAE 667 



Balaenoptera borealis Lesson* (Sei or Pollack whale) 



1828. Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere 



des mammiferes et des oiseaux decouverts depuis 1788 jusqu'a nos jours, 



[Half-title:] Complement des oeuvres de Buff on, . . . , Complement 2, 



vol. 1, Cetaces, p. 342. 



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



p. 591, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Balaenoptera borealis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 635, 



Nov. 4, 1898. 

 Type Locality. — Gromitz, Liibeck Bay, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. 

 Range. — In western North Atlantic from waters off Iceland (Saemundsson, 

 Mammalia, Zoology of Iceland, vol. 4, pt. 76, p. 28, 1939) and Labrador south 

 to Florida (Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, pp. 1-15, Dec. 11, 1924) and 

 Gulf of Campeche (Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 171, Oct. 15, 

 1928) ; and in western North Pacific from Bering Sea south at least to waters 

 off Baja California. 



Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede* (little piked or Minke whale) 



1804. Balaenoptera acuto-rostrata Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des 



Cetacees, . . . , p. xxxvii. 

 1872. Balaenoptera davidsoni Scammonf , Proc. California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 



p. 269, Oct. 4, 1872. (Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, Wash.) 

 1884. Agaphelus gibbosus, Balaenoptera rostratus, and B. davidsoni True, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), pp. 590, 591, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Balaenoptera acuto-rostrata Thomas, The Zoologist, ser. 4, vol. 2, p. 99, 



March 1898. 

 Type Locality. — European Seas. Range. — In western North Atlantic from 

 Iceland (Saemundsson, Mammalia, in Zoology of Iceland, vol. 4, pt. 76, p. 27, 

 1939), Baffin Bay and off south Greenland coast south at least to New Jersey 

 (G. M. Allen, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 274-275, September 

 1916) ; and 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 

 (see also Scattergood, Murrelet, vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-16, January-April 1949) . 



Genus SIBBALDUS Gray 

 1864. Sibbaldus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, pt. 2, p. 222, 

 November 1864. (Type, by tautonomy, Sibbaldus borealis Gray = 

 Physalus sibbaldii Giay = Balaena musculus Linnaeus.) 



Sibbaldus musculus ( Linnaeus ) * ( blue or sulphur-bottom whale ) 



1758. [Balaena] musculus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 76. 

 1884. Physalus sibbaldii and Sibbaldius sulfureus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , p. 591, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Balaenoptera musculus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 633, 



Nov. 4, 1898. 

 1923. Sibbaldus musculus Miller, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 76, No. 5, p. 20, 



Aug. 31, 1923. 

 Type Locality. — Firth of Forth, Scotland (see Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

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



