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American waters]. — Mathews, 1938, Discovery Rep., 17: 95, pis. 1-7 

 (animal), pi. 8 (flensing and spermaceti drawing), pi. 9, fig. 1, 2 (fetus), 

 fig. 3 (mouth), pi. 10 (jaws, cephalopod sucker scars; cysts), pi. 11 

 (testes, ovaries) [S. Atlantic: South Georgia; South Africa; characters; 

 food; parasites; reproduction; growth; migrations; whaling]. — Fraser, 

 in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 257, 

 fig. 67 (animal) [characters; habits; distribution]. — Kellogg, 1940, Nat. 

 Geogr. Mag., 77(1): 40, pi. 1 (animal), fig. p. 58 (flensing), fig. p. 63 

 (stranded animal) [characters; habits; distribution]. — Gibson-Hill, 

 1950, Bull. Raffles Mus., Singapore, 22: 78 [Indian: Cocos-Keeling 

 Islands]. — Hamilton, 1952, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat., 

 Montevideo, 4(66): 2, 3 [S. Atlantic: Falklands] .— Budker, 1959, 

 Whales and whaling, p. 40, pi. 3c (animal), pi. 17 (animal harpooned) 

 [characters; habits; maximum length 60 feet (not 90 feet as recorded 

 in Norwegian Whaling Gazette, 1948)]. — Fraser and Purves, 1960, 

 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 7: 42 et seq. [auditory system]. — 

 Clarke, 1962, Norsk Hvalf.-Tid., 51: 274, 277 [S. Pacific: Chile; 

 Ecuador (coast to Galapagos) ; seasonal and sexual trends ; sexual and 

 interspecific segregation; concentrations]. — Tomilin, 1962, Cetacea of 

 the U.S.S.R., Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 98, fig. 25 (animal), fig. 25 (skull) 

 [distribution; concentrations; movements; migrations; natural history; 

 economics]. — Leveque, 1963, Mammalia, 27(4): 608, pi. 15, fig. 2 

 (animal) [S. Pacific: Ecuador (Galapagos)]. — Clarke, 1964, Norsk 

 Hvalf.-Tid., 53(11): 297 [S. Pacific: Chile (Talcahuano, 36°45' S., 

 73°12'W., Iquique, 20°17' S., 70°09' W.); Peru (Pisco, 13°47' S., 

 76°15' W.; Paita, 05°05' S., 81°10' W.); sexual maturity, breeding]. 



Physeter catodon catodon, Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and 

 northern Asia, 9 (Cetacea): 416 [northern race recognized]. 



[Physeter] Macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1: 76 [N. 

 Atlantic (type locality: "Oceano Europeao") ; name based primarily 

 on a description of the sperm whale in Fauna Suecia, no. 262]. — 

 Thomas, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911: 157 [type history; 

 type locality: restricted to Norwegian seas; a synonym of P. catodon]. 



Catodon macrocephalus, Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, p. xxxix, 165, 

 pi. 10 (animal), pi. 11 (skull), pi. 12 (rib, vertebrae) [characters; 

 whaling; habits; ambergris]. — Bennett, 1840, Narrative of a whaling 

 voyage round the globe, p. 143, fig. (animal) [anatomy; habits; 

 whaling; commerce]. 



Physeter macrocephalus, Beale, 1839, Natural History of the sperm whale 

 (in text) [S. Pacific: Peru (Paita, Piura), Galapagos, Chile; life history; 

 anatomy; physiology; whaling; utilization]. — Gay, 1847, Hist. Chile, 

 Zool., 1: 177 [S. Pacific: Chile].— Van Beneden, 1888, Mem. Cour. 

 Aut. Mem. Acad. Roy. Belgique, 41 : 11 (separate) [history; characters; 

 habits; whaling; distribution; specimens; parasites]. — Blanford, 1891, 



