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the "smaller ziphid whale" described by Knox and Hector, 1871, 

 Trans. New Zealand Inst., (1870), 3: 125, pis. 13-15, and two skulls 

 submitted by Hector and Knox; holotype cast ashore January 1866 

 and presumably preserved by H. Arthur; skull now in British Museum 

 (Natural History), no. 1677b-76.2.16.3]; 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 (4), 11 : 111 [comments]. — Hector, 1875, Trans. New Zealand Inst., 7: 

 362 [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Lyall Bay); characters of complete 

 specimen] . 



Mesoplodon hectori, Flower, 1878, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 10: 416, 

 418, pi. 71, fig. 4 (skull), pi. 72, fig. 4 (skull) [taxonomy; osteology; 

 distribution; M. knoxi Hector a synonym]. — Forbes, 1893, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1893: 227 [taxonomy]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 

 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 281 [S. Pacific: New 

 Zealand]; 1950, Proc. Linnaean Soc. London, 162(1): 50, pis. 3, 4 

 (skull) [S. Atlantic: Falkland Islands]. — Hamilton, 1952, Comun. 

 Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 4(66): 3 [S. Atlantic: Falkland 

 Islands]. — McCann, 1962, Rec. Dominion Mus. 4(9): 83 [taxonomic 

 history; characters; regarded as a synonym of arnuxi Duvernoy]. 



Mesoplodon hectori, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 12 [type 

 skull, young, Brit. Mus., no. 1677b-76.2.16.3; received in exchange 

 from Colonial Museum, Wellington; Mesoplodon knoxi Hector a 

 synonym]. 



Paikea hectori, Oliver, 1922, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922: 575 [charac- 

 ters; taxonomic history]. 



Mesoplodon knoxi Hector, 1873, Trans. New Zealand Inst. (1872), 5: 

 168, pi. 6, figs. Aa-b (ear bones) [S. Pacific: New Zealand (type 

 locality : Titai Bay, near Porirua) ; type, skull and other skeletal parts 

 in Colonial Museum, Wellington, collected by Dr. Knox]. 



Smaller ziphid whale, Knox and Hector, 1871, Trans. New Zealand Inst., 

 (1870), 3: 125, pi. 13 (animal, vertebra, scapula, tooth, palate), pi. 14 

 (teeth, lower jaw), pi. 15 (skull) [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Porirua 

 Harbour, January 1862; Titai Bay, 1866, captured by H. Arthur; 

 Worser Bay, 1870)]. 



Type: Skull only, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; 

 collected by M. Arnoux, surgeon of the corvette Rhin under the command 

 of Captain Berard; and remitted to the museum October 20, 1846. 



Type locality: Akaroa, near Banks Island, New Zealand. 



Distribution: South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans from about 

 33° S. to Antarctic pack ice. 



Berardius [bairdi] bairdi Stejneger 



Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 6: 75. 

 Berardius bairdi, Omura, Fujino and Kimura, 1955, Sci. Rep. Whales 

 Res. Inst., Tokyo, 10: 89, pis 1-4 (animal), pis. 5, 6 (teeth), pis. 7-9 



