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pi. 1 (external characters of freshly killed animal), pi. 2 (skull), pi. 3 

 (sternum, ear bones, ribs, vertebrae, carpus) [China (Tung Ting Lake, 

 Hunan; Yangtse River at Kiang-yin, Kiang-su); history; nomen- 

 clature; taxonomy; distribution; anatomy; osteology; synonyms: 

 molagan Owen, melas Temminck, kurrachiensis Murray]. 

 [Neophocaena] phoccenoides, Trouessart, 1904, Cat. Mamm., Suppl., p. 768 



[classification] . 

 Delphinapterus molagan Owen, 1866, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 6:24 

 [Indian: India (type locality: Madras); description based on a draw- 

 ing of the "molagan" of the Tamil fishermen]. 

 Neomeris kurrachiensis Murray, 1884, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 13: 351 

 [Indian: Pakistan (type locality: Kurrachee (Karachi), Arabian Sea); 

 description based on stranded animal and skull; type presumably in 

 the Karachi Museum]. 

 Delphinus melas, Temminck (not Traill), 1841, Fauna Japonica, Mammi- 

 feres marins, p. 14, pi. 25 (animal, rostrum), pi. 26 (skull, pectoral 

 limb bones, sternum, vertebrae) [N. Pacific : Japan (type locality) ; 

 type skeleton in Leiden Museum]. 

 Neomeris melas Giglioli (cf. Temminck or Schlegel), 1870, Note intorno 

 alia distribuzione della fauna vertebra ta nell'oceano., Viaggio . . . 

 R. P. Magenta, p. 78 [N. Pacific: 8°43' N., 107°10' E. (off Indochina)]. 

 JSomerus [sic] melus [sic], Coues, 1890, Century Diet., 4: 4449 [in synonymy 



of Phocoena phocaenoides Cuvier] . 

 J^eophoccena sp., Lydekker, 1909, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908: 806, 



pi. 44, fig. 2 (animal) [characters]. 

 Type: Skull, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, no. 3086; 

 collected by M. Dussumier. 

 Type locality: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. 

 Distribution : The same as for the genus. 



Remarks: The species was described in 1829 on the basis of a skull 

 "decouvert au Cap." In erecting the genus Neomeris, Gray (1846, Zool- 

 ogy . . . Erebus and Terror, 1 : 30) remarked that, in addition to the type 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, "there is in the Mus. Paris a skull of i D. 

 Phoccenoides* brought from Malabar by Dussumier in 1837" [sic]. True 

 (1889, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 36: 114) examined two skulls in the Paris 

 Museum, as follows: "No. A. 3087 skull, Coast of Malabar. Dussumier. 

 Type D. phoccenoides Cuvier. No. A. 3086 skull, Cape of Good Hope." 

 On page 179 of the same work, however, True lists the South African 

 skull no. A. 3086 as type and gives its measurements. In his review of the 

 genus under the name Meomeris, G. M. Allen (1923, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., 65: 233, 235, 241) marshalled long lines of negative data to prove 

 that the "supposed occurrence [of D. phoccenoides] at the Cape of Good 

 Hope [is] almost certainly erroneous; so that as yet there is no evidence of 

 its presence in African waters." It appears now, however, that the animal 

 does occur off the coast of South Africa, as reported by Gibson-Hill (1950, 



