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(skull) [N. Pacific: Japan (north, east, west coasts); characters; life 

 history; whaling; Hyperoodon rostratus of Japanese authors regarded 

 as misidentification of Berardius bairdi]. — Brownell, 1964, Norsk 

 Hvalf.-Tid., 53(3): 60 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (California, 36°10' N., 

 123°10' W.)]. 



Berardius vegae Malm, 1883, Bihang Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl., 8(4) : 109 

 [N. Pacific: U.S.S.R. (type locality: Komandorskye Islands, Bering 

 Sea)]. 



[Berardius] vegaae [sic], Trouessart, 1904, Gat. Mamm., Suppl., p. 779 

 [misspelling of vegae Malm, in synonymy of B. bairdi]. 



Berardius vegana [sic], Bourdelle and Grasse, 1955, Traite de Zool., 

 17: 429 [misspelling of vegae Malm]. 



Type: Skull, U.S. National Museum, no. 20992; collected autumn 

 1882 by L. Stejneger. 



Type locality: Stare Gavan, eastern shore of Bering Island, Bering 

 Sea, North Pacific. 



Distribution : North Pacific from Bering Sea to south of Monterey Bay, 

 California, in the east, to Japan in the west. 



Genus MESOPLODON Gervais 



Aodon Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buff on, l(Cetaces): 

 155, 440, pi. 3, fig. 1 (animal with caption) [type species: Aodon Dalei 

 Lesson (=Physeter bidens Sowerby), by monotypy; generic name pre- 

 occupied by Aodon Lacepede, 1789, a genus offish]. 



Nodus Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amphibien, p. 34 [new name for Aodon 

 Lesson, preoccupied; type species: "Delphinus edentulus Schreb., Cuv. 

 Mammif. Liv. 53. {Heterodon Dalei Less. Man. de Mammal, p. 419. 

 Id. Aodon Dalei Oeuv. de Buff. p. 155. t. 3. f. 1)" (=Physeter bidens 

 Sowerby)]. — Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 555 [history; 

 synonymy]. — Sheffer and Rice, 1963, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv. 

 Spec. Sci. Rep., Fisheries, 431 : 1 [regarded as a nomen oblitum on 

 the basis of a sui generis interpretation of the Code of Zoological 

 Nomenclature]. 



Micropterus Wagner, 1846, Schreber's Saugthiere, 7: 281, 352 [subgenus 

 of Delphinus; type species: D. micropterus Cuvier (=Physeter bidens 

 Sowerby) by tautonomy and monotypy; generic name preoccupied by 

 Micropterus Lacepede, 1802, a genus of fish]. 



Micropteron Eschricht, 1849, Konigl. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift., 

 Copenhagen, (5), 1: 97 [type species: Delphinus micropterus (=Physeter 

 bidens Sowerby), by tautonomy]. 



Dioplodon Gervais, 1850, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, (3), 14: 16 (lines 19-20) 

 [type species: Delphinus densirostris Blainville, by original designation 

 and monotypy]. — Gervais, 1850, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 31: 



