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Genus MESOPLODON Gervais. 



1850. Mesoplodon Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, ser. 3, Zool., 

 vol. 14, p. 16. Type, Delphinus sowerbiensis Blainviljle = 

 Physeter hidens Sowerby. 



1922. PaiJcea Oliver, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 574, Septem- 

 ber, 1922. Type, Berardius hectori Gray. 



Mesoplodon bid ens (Sowerby). 



1804. Physeter hidens Sowerby, British Miscellany, p. 1. 

 1877. M[esoplodon] hidens Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



p. 684. 

 1885. Mesoplodon sowerbiensis True. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



7 (1884), p. 590. 1885. 

 1901. [Mesoplodon] hidens, Elliot, Synops. Mamm. N. Amer., 



p. 18. March, 1901. 

 Type Locality. — Coast of Elginshire, Scotland. 

 Range. — North Atlantic Ocean; northern France to Norway 



and Sweden; Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. 



♦Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville) 



1817. Delphinus densirostris Blainville, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 



Nat., ed. 2, vol. 9, p. 178. 

 1877. M[esoplodon] densirostris Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



p. 684. 

 1906. Mesoplodon hidens G. M. Allex, Amer. Nat., vol. 40, 



p. 357. May, 1906. (Part.) 

 Type Locality. — Unknown. 

 Range. — Indian Ocean, and about Australia; Massachusetts 



(True, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 73, pp. 9, 11, September 28, 



1910); New Jersey (Andrews, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1914, p. 437, August 5, 1914). 



* Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais). 



1848-52. Dioplodon europaeus Gervais. Zool. et Pal. franc, ed. 



1, p. 4. 

 1877. M[esopl.odon\ europxus Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



p. 684. 

 1910. Mesoplodon europaeus True, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.. No. 



73, p. 11. September 28, 1910. 

 Type Locality. — ^English Channel. 

 Range. — North Atlantic Ocean; English Channel; New Jersey. 



t*Mesoplodon stejnegeri True. 



1885. Mesoplodon stejnegeri True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 8, 

 p. 585. October 19, 1885. 



