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on the incorrectly identified "dauphin de Dale" of Blainville and F. 



Cuvier] . 

 D[elphinorhynchus\ Micropterus, F. Cuvier, 1836, Hist. Nat. Cetaces, p. 114, 



pi. 9 [sic = pi. 8], fig. 1 (animal) [type history; characters]. 

 Delphinus micropteron Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and 



northern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 477 [misprint for micropterus in synonymy 



of Mesoplodon bidens]. 



Type: A stranded male, skull only preserved, originally in Sowerby's 

 museum now in the museum of the University of Oxford; collected 1800 

 by Mr. James Brodie. 



Type locality: Brodie House, Elginshire, Scotland. 



Distribution: North Atlantic from Norway, Baltic Sea, and British 

 Isles into the Mediterranean Sea on the east and from Newfoundland to 

 Massachussetts on the west. 



Mesoplodon europaeus Gervais 



Dioplodon europceus Gervais, 1848-1852, Zoologie et paleontologie 

 frangaises, ed. 1, p. 4 [a nomen nudum according to recent authors; 

 work not seen]; 1855, Hist. Nat. Mamm., 2: 320 [valid description]; 

 1859, Zoologie et paleontologie frangaises, ed. 2, pp. 289, 298, 299 

 [nomen nudum; evidently also a nomen nudum in the first edition]. — 

 Van Beneden, 1863, Mem. couronnes et autres Mem., Acad. Roy. 

 Belgique, 16: 18, pi. 1 (skull) [comparisons]. 



Neoziphius europaeus, Gray, 1871, Suppl. Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., 

 p. 101 [classification]. 



M[esoplodon] europceus, Flower, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877: 684 

 [listed]. 



Mesoplodon europceus, True, 1910, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 73: 11, 76, pi. 2, 

 figs. 1, 2; pi. 5, figs. 1, 2; pi. 8; pi. 10, fig. 4 (skull); pi. 11, figs. 3-6 

 (mandible), pi. 13 (vertebrae, scapula, sternum, limb bones, lungs) 

 [N. Atlantic: English Channel; U.S.A. (New Jersey)].— Ulmer, 1947, 

 Journ. Mammal., 28: 185 [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. (Florida)].— Miller 

 and Kellogg, 1955, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 205: 651 [listed]. 



Nodus europaeus, Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 559 [nomen- 

 clature] . 



Dioplodon gervaisi Deslongchamps, 1866, Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, 

 10: 176. 



Mesoplodon gervaisi, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, Checklist, 

 Palaearctic and Indian mammals, p. 725 [europaeus Gervais a nomen 

 nudum].— Fraser, 1955, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (12), 8: 624, pis. 13-15 

 (skull) [N. Atlantic: Trinidad]. — Twist and Twist, 1957, Journ. 

 Trinidad Field Nat. Club, 1956: 26 [N. Atlantic: Trinidad].— Moore 

 and Wood, 1957, American Mus. Novit., no. 1831 [N. Atlantic: Trin- 

 idad, Jamaica, Cuba (Cayo Alacranes) ; U.S.A. (Florida, New Jersey, 



