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1947, Proc. K. Nederlandsche Akad. Wet., 50: 1352, fig. 1 (animal) 

 [S. Atlantic: 48°59' S., 6°36' E.; 46°52' S., 8°30' E.: S. Pacific: 

 55°-60°S., 135° E. (Wilson, 1907); 54°-65° S., 157° E., 88° W. (Lillie, 

 1915)]; 1948, Proc. K. Nederlandsche Akad. Wet, 51: 129 [regarded 

 as a synonym of cruciger}. 



L[agenorhynchus] wilsoni, Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant 

 fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 322 ["nearly allied to if specifically 

 distinguishable from [L. cruciger]"]. 



Type : None in existence ; name based on animals seen at sea. 



Type locality: Pacific Ocean, latitude 49° S., between Cape Horn 

 and Australia. 



Distribution: South Pacific and Atlantic Oceans to the ice packs; on 

 South American coasts from Cape Horn to Rio de La Plata (35° S.) on the 

 Atlantic and to Atico (16° S.) on the Pacific. 



Lagenorhynchus electra Gray 



Lagenorhynchus Electra Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. 



Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 35, pi. 13 (skull); 1850, Cat. 



Mamm., Brit. Mus., Cetacea, p. 100 [characters]; 1866, Cat. seals and 



whales Brit. Mus., p. 268 [characters]. 

 L[agenorhynchus] electra, Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 



490, 511 [taxonomy; synonyms: L. asia Gray, Delphinus fusiformis 



Owen]. 

 Lagenorhynchus electra, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 23 [type 



skull only, Brit. Mus., 359a; synonyms: Lagenorhynchus asia Gray, 1846, 



Delphinus fusiformis Owen, 1866, from Madras]. — True, 1889, Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 100, 173, pi. 28, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) 



[Indian: India; N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Hawaii); taxonomy; characters; 



synonyms: Lagenorhynchus asia Gray, Delphinus fusiformis Owen, Pho- 



caena pectoralis Peale]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 264 [Indian; 



S. Pacific; characters]. — Goodwin, 1945, Journ. Mammal., 26: 195, 



fig. (animal) [N. Atlantic: 03°03' N., 24°40' W.].— Bierman and 



Slijper, 1947, Proc. K. Nederlandsche Akad. Wet., 50: 1361 [N. 



Pacific: U.S.A. (Hawaii); Indian: India (Vizagapatam, Madras); 



Indonesia (Solor); N. Atlantic: Senegal; Guinea; taxonomy]; 



1948, Proc. K. Nederlandsche Akad. Wet., 51 : 130 [tropical seas north 

 of 10° S.]. 



Electra electra, Nakajima and Nishiwaki, 1965, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. 

 Inst., 19: 65, figs. 1, 3 (animal), fig. 2 (male genitalia), fig. 4 (dorsal 

 fin), fig. 5 (flukes), fig. 6 (vertebrae), fig. 7 (hyoid), fig. 8 (pelvic 

 bone), pi. 1 (head), pi. 2 (skull and dentition), pi. 3 (flippers), pis. 4, 

 5 (skull), pis. 6, 7 (postcranial skeleton) [N. Pacific: Japan (Hirat- 

 suka Beach, Sagami Bay, Honshu); characters; taxonomy]. 



