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Superfamily DELPHINOIDEA 



Family Monodontidae 

 Subfamily delphinapterinae 



Genus DELPHINAPTERUS Lacepede 

 1804. Delphinapterus Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des cetacees, . . . , p. 

 XLI. (Type, Delphinapterus beluga Lacepede = Delphinus leucas Pallas.) 



Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas) * (white whale) 



1776. Delphinus leucas Pallas, . . . Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen 



des Russischen Reichs, vol. 3, book 1, p. 85, footnote. 

 1812. D[elphinapterus] leucas G. Cuvier, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 19, 



p. 13. 

 1822. Delphinus canadensis Desmarest, Mammalogie, . . . , pt. 2, p. 516, 



[in Encyclopedic methodique, . . . ]. (Seas of Canada.) 

 1865. Beluga rhinodon Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, p. 



278. (Upernavik, Greenland.) 

 1865. Beluga declivis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, p. 278. 



1865. Beluga concreta Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, p. 278. 



1866. Beluga angustata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 18, p. 

 293. 



1935. Delphinapterus freimani Klumov, Biulleten' rybnogo Khoziaistvo 

 S.S.S.R. (Sea Fishery Economics in U.S.S.R.), Moscou, No. 7, pp. 26-28. 

 (White Sea, northeastern U.S.S.R.) 



Type Locality. — Mouth of Obi [Ob] River, northeastern Siberia, U. S. S. R. 

 Range. — In western North Atlantic recorded from Ellesmere Island (lat. 81°35' 

 N.), Greenland, Lancaster Sound, Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, Foxe Basin, Hudson 

 Strait, Hudson Bay, and south along Labrador coast, regularly to north shore of 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) p. 86, 

 Jan. 24, 1947) ; straggling southward to Cape Cod, Mass. (True, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 36, p. 188, Aug. 8, 1889) ; westward to Coronation Gulf, Franklin 

 Bay, Cape Bathurst, and vicinity of mouth of Mackenzie River (Preble, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 27, p. 128, Oct. 26, 1908) . 



Delphinapterus dorofeevi Barabash and Klumov* 



1935. Delphinapterus dorofeevi Barabash and Klumov, Biulleten' rybnogo 



Khoziaistvo S.S.S.R. (Sea Fishery Economics in U.S.S.R.), Moscou, No. 11, 



p. 24. 

 Type Locality. — Okhotsk Sea. Range. — Recorded only from Okhotsk Sea 

 (Barabash, Journ. Mamra., vol. 18, No. 4, p. 508, Nov. 14, 1937). Presumably 

 enters Bering Sea, and may represent form recorded at Point Barrow (Stone, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 52, p. 34, Mar. 24, 1900), Eschscholtz 

 Bay and Pastolik, Alaska (True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36, p. 149, Aug. 8, 1889), 

 Yukon River (Dall, Science, new ser., vol. 5, No. 126, p. 843, May 28, 1897), 

 Nushagak River on Bristol Bay and about mouth of Cook Inlet, Alaska (Osgood, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 24, p. 27, Nov. 23, 1904) . 



