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New York) ; English Channel; characters; comparisons]. — Moore, 1960, 

 American Mus. Novit., 1993: fig. 1 (mandible), figs. 2-4 (teeth), figs. 

 5-8 (skull) [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. (Florida; Padre Island, Texas; char- 

 acters; comparisons; distribution]. 

 Mesoplodon densirostris, Gunter (not Blainville), 1955, Journ. Mammal., 

 36: 573 [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. (Padre Island, 40 miles south of Port 

 Aransas, Texas)].— Moore, 1958, Amer. Mus. Novit., 1897: 6-8 [a 

 misidentification] ; I960, Amer. Mus. Novit., 1993: 2, fig. 1 (mandible) 

 [determined as M. gervaisi Deslongchamps]. 



Type: Skull only, in Caen Museum; found floating in the English 

 Channel and retrieved by a ship's captain ; presented to M. Deslongchamps 

 pere through M. Vautier. 



Type locality: English Channel. 



Distribution: North Atlantic in the English Channel and from New 

 York to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean from Cuba to 

 Trinidad. 



Mesoplodon mirus True 



Mesoplodon mirum True, 1913, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 60(25): 1. 



Mesoplodon mirus, Ulmer, 1941, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 93: 

 107, figs. p. 113 (pelvic bones), pi. 20, 21 (animal) [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. 

 (New Jersey); characters; comparisons; history]. — Moore and Wood, 

 1957, American Mus. Novit., no. 1831, fig. 1 (animal) [characters; 

 comparisons; distribution]. — Talbot, 1960, Nature, 186(4733): 406 

 [Indian: South Africa (Wilderness, 170 miles east of Cape Agulhas)]. — 

 McCann and Talbot, 1964, Proc. Linn. Soc. London, 75(2): 137, fig. 1 

 (teeth), pi. 1 (animal), pis. 2-5 (skull), pi. 6 (teeth) [characters; 

 distribution ; synonymy]. — Barriety, 1962, Bull. Cent. Rech. Sci. Biar- 

 ritz, 4(1): 94 TN. Atlantic: France (Bidart); work not seen]. 



Type: Stranded animal, skull and partial postcranial skeleton, also cast 

 of entire body and cast of head, U.S. National Museum, no. 175019, 

 collected July 26, 1912, by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



Type locality: Bird Island shoal, Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, 

 North Atlantic. 



Distribution: In North Atlantic: the British Isles and French coast, 

 and from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, to Florida; in South Atlantic: 

 known only from off the southern coast of South Africa. 



Mesoplodon grayi Haast 



Berardius hectori, Hector (not Gray), 1874, Trans. New Zealand Inst., 

 1873, 6: 86, pi 15A (mandible and tooth) [S. Pacific: New Zealand 

 (Kaikoura)]; 1875, Trans. New Zealand Inst., (1874), 7: 262 [S. 

 Pacific: New Zealand (Lyttleton Bay); characters]. 



