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Physeterus [sic] sulcatus Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4: 

 474 [N. Pacific : Japan (type locality) ; name based on a Japanese 

 drawing of a sperm whale]. 



Physeter australasianus Desmoulins, 1822, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., 2: 618 

 [Indian (type localities: Moluccas and New Zealand); name based on 

 the "cachalot" described by Capt. Benjamin Hammat and figured 

 in Quoy and Gaimard (1824 in Freycinet, Voyage autour du monde . . ., 

 Zool., Atlas, pi. 12)]. 



Tursio vulgaris Fleming, 1822, Philos. Zool., 2: 211 [new name for 

 Physeter tursio Linnaeus]. 



Physeter poly cephus Quoy and Gaimard, 1824, in Freycinet, Voyage autour 

 du monde . . . Zool., p. 77; Atlas, pi. 12 (animal) [name based on 

 animal observed at sea]. 



Catodon polycyphus [sic], Lesson, 1827, Manuel Mammal., p. 422 [classi- 

 fication] . 



Physeter poly cystus [sic], Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 

 204 ["this is probably the whale Mr. Couch in his former list referred 

 to Physeter poly cystus" \ Couch work not located; cf. Couch, 1857, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., (2), 20: 424-439, where reference is made (p. 433) 

 to the "polyhistor of Solimis and Sibbald"]. 



Catodon polyscyphus [sic], Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., 

 p. 210 [lapsus for polycyphus Lesson]. 



Delphinus Bayeri Risso, 1826, Hist. Nat. Europe Merid., 3: 22 [N. At- 

 lantic: France (type locality: Nice, Mediterranean); type a stranded 

 specimen]. — Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buffon, p. 247 

 [N. Atlantic: France (Nice)]. 



Catodon Colneti Gray, 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, p. 52 

 [N. Atlantic : Mexico (type locality : Point Angles) ; name based on 

 the sperm whale of Colnet (1792, Voyage to the South Atlantic, p. 80, 

 fig- 9)]. 



P[hyseter] australis Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus 

 and Terror, 1 (Mammalia) : 22 (in text) [lapsus for Physeter australasianus 

 Desmoulins]. 



Catodon australis, Wall, 1851, Mem. Australian Mus., 1: 1 (reprint), 

 pi. 1 (skeleton) [S. Pacific: Australia (Port Jackson Bay, New South 

 Wales); osteology; referred to Gray's misnomer of Physeter australasianus 

 Desmoulins (cf. pp. 3, 35)]. — Gray, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1865: 439 [S. Pacific: Australia (Hobart Town) ; skeleton in the museum 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons]. 



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

 and northern Asia, 9 (Cetacea): 416 [southern race recognized; name 

 attributed to "Mac-Leay, 1851"]. 



Catodon (Meganeuron) Krefftii Gray, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 

 440, figs. 1-4 (vertebrae) [S. Pacific: Australia (type locality: New 

 South Wales) ; name based on photographs of cervical vertebrae sub- 



