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Sarawak Mus. Journ., 5: 294). In view of the equivocal arguments for 

 rejecting the Cape of Good Hope as type locality and the strong evidence 

 in favor of accepting it, I retain Cuvier's original designation of the type 

 and type locality. Tomilin (1962, Cetacea of the U.S.S.R., Fauna 

 U.S.S.R., 79:194) includes Korea and adds 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 parts of the Kuriles. 



Family MONODONTIDAE 



Genus DELPHINAPTERUS Lacepede 



Delphinapterus Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xli, 243 [included 

 species: Delphinapterus beluga Lacepede (=Delphinus leucas Pallas), 

 Delphinapterus senedetta Lacepede].— Sonnini (Lacepede), 1804, Hist. 

 Nat. Cetacees, pp. 39, 347 [included species: D. beluga (type, i.e., 

 "premiere espece" —Delphinus leucas Pallas, 1776), D. senedetta Lacepede 

 (unidentifiable, possibly mythical)]. — Flower, 1884, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1883: 505 [characters].— Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 

 3: 33 [history; relationship]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 

 3: 250, 285, 291 [characters; classification]. — Kleinenberg, Yablokov, 

 Belkovich, Tarasevich, 1964, Academy Press, "Nauka," Moscow, 466 

 pp., illustrated [exhaustive monographic treatment]. 



Beluga Rafinesque, 1815, Analyse de la Nature, p. 60 [new name for 

 Delphinapterus Lacepede]. — Gray, 1828, Spicilegia zoologica, 1: 2 [sub- 

 genus of Delphinus; type species: D. leucas Pallas, by monotypy; name 

 preoccupied by Beluga Gmelin, 1774, a genus offish]. 



Delphinaptera Bowdich, 1821, Anal. Class. Mamm., p. 86 [emendation of 

 Delphinapterus Lacepede]. 



Delphinaster Gray, 1821, London Medical Repository, 15: 310 [misprint 

 for Delphinapterus Lacepede; included species: Delphinus leucaster (sic) 

 (=D. leucas Pallas)]. 



Delphinopterus Cuvier, 1829, Diet. Sci. Nat., 59: 517 [misprint for Del- 

 phinapterus Lacepede]. 



Delphis Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amphibien, p. 34 [type species: Del- 

 phinus leucas Pallas, by monotypy]. 



Argocetus Gloger, 1 842, Hand-und Hilfsbuch der Naturgeschichte 1 : 

 xxxiv, 169 [type species: the "beluge," by monotypy]. 



Type species: Delphinapterus beluga Lacepede (= Delphinus leucas Pallas), 

 designation by Sonnini in Lacepede (1804, Hist. Nat. cetacees, p. 39). 



Distribution: Arctic seas of North America and Eurasia from 81° N. 

 southward to Japan and Alaska in the Pacific, to the British Isles and Bay 

 of Biscay, France, in the eastern Atlantic, Massachusetts in the western 

 Atlantic. 



