CETACEA: MONODONTIDAE— DELPHINIDAE 655 



Subfamily monodontinae 

 Genus MONODON Linnaeus 

 1758. Monodon Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75. (Type, 

 Monodon monoceros Linnaeus.) 



Monodon monoceros Linnaeus* (narwhal) 



1758. [Monodon] monoceros Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75. 



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

 p. 590, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Arctic seas. Range. — Arctic seas; north in summer on east 

 coast of Greenland, west coast of Greenland, and eastern coast of Ellesmere Island 

 to Smith Sound, Buchanan Bay (Bache Peninsula about lat. 79° N.), Kane 

 Basin, and Kennedy Channel to lat. 81°35' N. in migration; south in Baffin Bay, 

 Davis Strait, Hudson Strait, and Atlantic coast of Labrador; common in Lan- 

 caster Sound and Eclipse Sound (Bylot Island) during migrations; west in 

 eastern Canadian Arctic to Prince Regent Sound (east side of Somerset Island) 

 and Boothia Peninsula; rare in northern parts of Hudson Bay (Anderson, Nat. 

 Mus. Canada Bull. 102, (1946) p. 87, Jan. 24, 1947). Recorded also from near 

 Cape Halkett, Harrison Bay, at mouth of Colville River, lat. 71° N., long. 151° W., 

 northern coast of Alaska (Huey, Journ. Mamm., vol. 33, No. 4, p. 496, Nov. 19, 

 1952). 



Family Delphinidae t2 (porpoises) 



Subfamily delphininae 

 Genus STENELLA Gray 

 1866. Stenella Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, pt. 2, p. 213, September 

 1866. (Type, Steno altenuatus Gray. For use of this name in place of 

 Prodelphinus Gervais, see Oliver, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922, pt. 3, 

 p. 582, Sept. 28, 1922.) 

 1880. Prodelphinus Gervais, in van Beneden and Gervais, Osteographie des 

 cetaces vivants et fossiles, p. 604. (Type, Delphinus marginatus Duvernoy.) 



Stenella attenuata (Gray) * 



1846. Steno attenuatus Gray, in The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus 

 and Terror, . . . , vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 44. 



1934. Stenella attenuata Iredale and Troughton, Mem. Australian Mus., No. 

 6, p. 66, May 4, 1934. 



Type Locality. — Unknown. Range. — In eastern North Pacific recorded at 

 Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands (True, U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisheries Bull., 1903, 

 pp. 41-45, 1903). 



Stenella frontalis (G. Cuvier) * 



1829. D[elphinus] frontalis G. Cuvier, Le regne animal, . . . , ed. 2, 

 vol. 1, p. 288, April 1829. 



1836. Delphinus fraenatus F. Cuvier, De l'histoire naturelle des cet- 

 aces, . . . , p. 155, pi. 10, fig. 1. (Thirty leagues south of Cape 



n Revised by True, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 36, pp. 1-191, pis. 47, Aug. 8, 1889. 



