CATALOG OF LIVING WHALES 109 



Delphinapterus leucas Pallas 



[?]Physeter Katadon Muller, 1773, Linne Vollst. Nat., 1: 497 ["Der 

 Weissfisch" ; name based on the whales stranded on the Orkney 

 Islands recorded by pre-Linnaean authors (cf. Artedi, 1738, Syn. Nom. 

 piscium, p. 106)]. 



Delphinus leucas Pallas, 1776, Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des 

 Russichen Reichs, 3(1): 85, ftn. 



Delphinapterus leucas, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., pp. 14-15 

 [Delphinus (Delphinapterus) kingii Gray a synonym; type skull of young 

 individual, British Museum, no. 364a, "of corresponding age to and 

 closely resembling the last" (a skull from Greenland)]. — Hector, 1885, 

 Trans. New Zealand Inst., 17: 209 [kingii Gray a synonym; doubt- 

 fully present in South Pacific]. — Oliver, 1922, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1922: 557 [New Zealand; "beluga" of authors = Tur slops truncatus 

 Montagu].— Niort, 1949, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, Paris, 74: 244 [N. 

 Atlantic: France (lower Loire River)]. — U.S. Navy Oceanographic 

 Office, 1958, Oceanographic atlas of the polar seas, figs. 115-126 (map) 

 [movements and concentrations]. — Fish and Mowbray, 1962, Journ. 

 Marine Res., Yale Univ., 20(2): 149 [sound production]. — Tomilin, 

 1962, Cetacea of the U.S.S.R., Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 138, fig. 42 

 (animal), fig. 43 (skull) [U.S.S.R. (Barents to Bering and Okhotsk and 

 Japan Seas); concentrations; movements; natural history]. 



B[alaena\ albicans Muller, 1776, Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, p. 7. 



Delphinus albicans, Fabricius, 1780, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 50 [name 

 based on the Icelanders' "hrafu-reydur" or "huitingar" and Green- 

 landers' "killelluak" ; N. Atlantic: Greenland (type locality)]. 



Ph[yseter] macrocephalus albicans, Kerr, 1792, Animal kingdom, p. 361 

 [the white fish or white whale of authors]. 



Catodon albicans, Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xxxix, 218 

 [characters; classification]. 



Delphinus albians [sic], Nilsson, 1820, Skandinavisk fauna, 1: 403 [N. 

 Atlantic; characters; name a misprint for albicans Fabricius]. 



Catodon candicans Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buff on, p. 

 192, ftn. [in synonymy of Delphinus leucas Pallas; name a lapsus for 

 Catodon albicans Lacepede ( = Balaena albicans Muller) ]. 



D[elphinus] Phocaena albus Kerr, 1792, Animal kingdom, p. 363 [N. 

 Atlantic: Canada (type locality: St. Lawrence River); name based on 

 the "moine de mer" of Bomare (Diet. Hist. Nat., entry: " Baleine")]. 



Delphinapterus beluga Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xli. 243 

 [type locality: Arctic seas and the North Atlantic Ocean, particularly 

 Davis Strait]. — Sonnini (Lacepede), 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. 39, 

 347 [characters]. 



Delphinus leucaster [sic], Gray, 1821, London Medical Repository, 15: 310 

 [evidently a misprint for D. leucas Pallas]. 



