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Meomeris Gray, 1847, List Osteol. Spec. Brit. Mus., pp. xii, 36 [misprint 

 for Neomeris Gray, an incorrect subsequent spelling without status in 

 nomenclature (cf. Art. 33, International Code Zoological Nomencla- 

 ture].— Thomas, 1922, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9), 9: 676 ["valid" 

 generic name, substituted for Neomeris Gray, preoccupied; Neopho- 

 caena Palmer a synonym]. — G. M. Allen, 1923, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., 65: 233 [history; nomenclature; taxonomy; morphology]. — 

 Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, 39: 552 [nomenclature]. 



Nomeris Coues, 1890, Century Diet., 4: 4449 [misprint for Neomeris 

 in Synonymy of Phocoena phocaenoides, an incorrect subsequent spelling 

 without status in nomenclature (cf. Art. 36, International Code Zo- 

 ological Nomenclature)]. 



Neophocaena Palmer, 1899, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 13: 23 [new 

 name for Neomeris Gray believed to be preoccupied by Neomeris Lam- 

 oureux, 1816, regarded as a polyp but which appears to be an alga 

 (cf. Thomas, 1925, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9), 16: 655)]. 



Phaoecana G. M. Allen, 1923, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 65: 239 [misprint 

 for Phocoena in combination with phocaenoides; name attributed to Rob- 

 inson and Kloss, in synonymy of Meomeris phocaenoides]. 



Type species : Neomeris Phocaenoides Gray (= Delphinus phocaenoides Cuvier), 

 by monotypy. 



Distribution: Indian Ocean: from South Africa to Bay of Bengal; 

 South Pacific: from South China Sea (Sarawak), Chinese coast (Yang- 

 tzekiang River from mouth to 1000 miles inland, and in Tungting Lake) 

 to coast of southern Japan. Tomilin (1962, Cetacea of the U.S.S.R. 

 Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 194) adds Korea and the peripheral Malacca and 

 Persian Gulf to the range of the genus. He mentions that the species may 

 be a possible visitor in the Sea of Japan and southern part of the Kuriles. 



Neophocaena phocaenoides G. Cuvier 



D[elphinus] phocaenoides G. Cuvier, 1829, Regni animale, 1: 291 (in text). 

 Neomeris Phocaenoides, Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. 



Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 30 [classification]. 

 Neomeris phocaenoides, True, 1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 114, 178, pi. 



34, fig. 1 (animal), fig. 2 (skull) [characters; cotypes in Paris Museum 



(skull from Malabar=lectotype; skull from Cape of Good Hope); 



skeleton of type of melas Temminck in Leiden Museum]. — Fraser, 



1935, Nat. Hist. Mag., 5: 90, fig. p. 91 (animal) [China: Yangtse 



River, 60 miles above Hankow]. 

 Neomeris phocaenoides, Gibson-Hill, 1950, Sarawak Mus. Journ., 5: 294 



[N. Pacific: Sarawak; Indian: South Africa]. — Romer, 1955, Mem. 



Hong Kong Biol. Circle, 3: 2, 4, fig. p. 2 (animal) [N. Pacific: Hong 



Kong; measurements; color change in death]. 

 Meomeris phocaenoides, Gray, 1847, List osteological specimens Brit. Mus., 



p. 36 [listed].— G. M. Allen, 1923, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 65: 233, 



