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Mesoplodon Grayi, Haast, 1876, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876: 9 (original 

 description), 457 [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Saltwater Greek, 30 miles 

 north of Banks Peninsula); characters; type of Oulodon Haast]. — 

 Courtenay-Latimer, 1963, Ann. Cape Prov. Mus., 3: 122, fig. (animal) 

 [Indian: South Africa (Gulu)]. 



Mesoplodon grayi, Flower, 1878, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 10: 417, pis. 

 71, 72 (skull), pi. 3 (skeleton) [taxonomy; osteology; comparisons; 

 distribution].— Forbes, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893: 229, 

 pis. 12-15 (skull and transverse sections of rostrum) [development of 

 rostrum; cranial variation; systematics; synonyms: knoxi Hector, 

 hectori Hector (not Gray), haasti Flower]. — True, 1910, Bull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., 73: 76 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Bahia Nueva, Chubut); 

 S. Pacific: New Zealand (Chatham Island)].— Oliver, 1922, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1922: 572 [S. Pacific: New Zealand] — Iredale and 

 Troughton, 1934, Mem. Australian Mus., 6: 62 [S. Pacific: Australia 

 (Tasmania; Victoria); synonyms: haasti Flower, australis Flower]. — 

 Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, 

 p. 281 [characters]. — Cabrera and Yepes, 1940, Mamiferos sudameri- 

 canos, p. 302 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Golfo Nuevo, Chubut)]. — 

 Boschma, 1950, Proc. Kongl. Nederl. Akad. Wet., 53: 779, figs. 2-3 

 (rostrum), pi 1, fig. 2 (teeth) [N. Atlantic: Netherlands (Kijkduin, 

 Loosduinen); characters]. — Barnard, 1954, Guide book to South 

 African whales and dolphins, p. 19, fig. 10 (animal) [S. Atlantic: 

 South Africa]. — Mann, 1957, Invest. Zool. Chilenas, 4: 101 [S. Pacific: 

 Chile].— McCann, 1964, Tuatara, 12(2): 124 [S. Pacific: New Zealand 

 (records compiled)]. 



Oulodon grayi, Haast, 1877, Trans. New Zealand Inst., 1876: 9, 450, pi. 

 26, fig. 3 (skull) [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Chatham Islands); charac- 

 ters; type of Oulodon Haast]. 



Mesoplodon grayi, Hale, 1932, Rec. S. Australian Mus., 4(4): 489, fig. 1 

 (skeleton), figs. 2-4 (skull), figs. 5, 6 (mandible), figs. 7-9 (teeth), 

 fig. 10 (forelimb bones and scapula) [Indian: Australia (Young 

 Husband Peninsula near mouth of Murray River)]. 



Mesoplodon haasti Flower, 1878a, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877: 684 

 [S. Pacific: New Zealand; type a portion of cranium in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons]; 1878b, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 10: 417 

 (ftn.), 421, pis. 71, 72 (rostrum), pi. 73 (vertebral column) [osteology; 

 comparisons]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 219 [characters]. — 

 Lillie, 1915, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition 1910, Zool., 

 1(3): 119 [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Great Exhibition Bay, North 

 Cape) ; probably conspecific with grayi and haasti.}. 



Mesoplodon australis Flower, 1878, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 10: 417 

 (ftn.), 419, pi. 71, fig. 1, p. 72, fig. 1 (skull), pi. 73, fig. 3 (vertebral 

 column) [S. Pacific: New Zealand (type locality); osteology; com- 



