CATALOG OF LIVING WHALES 133 



Type: Stranded animal; entire skeleton only preserved, National 

 Science Museum, Tokyo; collected Sept. 23, 1957. 



Type locality: Oiso Beach, Sagami Bay, near Tokyo, Japan. 



Distribution : In northern Pacific, Japan on the west, California (Del- 

 mar, near San Diego) on the east; Indian Ocean (Ceylon). 



Mesoplodon layardi Gray 



Ziphius Layardii Gray, 1865a, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 358, fig. 

 (skull, lower jaw, teeth); 1865b, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 524 

 [characters]; 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 353, fig. 72 

 (skull, teeth) [characters]. 



Dolichodon Layardii, Gray, 1871, Suppl. Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., 

 p. 101 [classification]; 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 11 : 110 [charac- 

 ters]. 



Mesoplodon layardii, Hector, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 11: 106 

 [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Chatham Island); characters]. — Forbes, 

 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893: 227, fig. 2 (transverse section 

 of rostrum) [development of rostrum; taxonomy; synonyms: guentheri 

 (sic) Gray, traversii Gray, floweri Haast, giintheri (sic) Turner]. — Hale, 

 1931, Rec. S. Australian Mus., 4(3): 306, figs. 20, 21 (skull), figs. 22, 

 23 (animal), figs. 2, 24, 25 (tee'th), figs. 26, 27 (skull) [Indian: Aus- 

 tralia (Port Victoria, Yorke Peninsula; Victor Harbour, Encounter 

 Bay)]. — Iredale and Troughton, 1934, Mem. Australian Mus., 6: 61 

 [S. Pacific: Australia (Queensland; Tasmania)]. — G. M. Allen, 1942, 

 Extinct and vanishing mammals of the western hemisphere, p. 483 

 [distribution]. 



Mesoplodon layardi [sic], Flower, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877: 

 684 [synonyms: longirostris Gray, floweri Haast, guentheri (sic) Krefft, 

 traversii Gray; distribution]; 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 11 [skull 

 in British Museum, no. 69.4.5.2, purchased from South African Mu- 

 seum]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 220 [characters]. — Fraser, 

 in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 280 

 [S. Pacific: New Zealand; Australia; S. Atlantic: Falkland Islands]. — 

 Oliver, 1922, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922: 574 [S. Pacific: New 

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

 Zealand (records compiled)]. 



M[esoplodon] layardi, Flower, 1878, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 10: 416 

 [taxonomy; distribution; synonyms: longirostris Krefft (ms.), traversii 

 Gray, floweri Haast, giintheri Krefft]. 



[Mesoplodon] Layardi, Trouessart, 1898, Cat. Mamm., p. 1067 [synonymy; 

 bibliography]. 



Mesoplodon Giintheri Krefft, 1871, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 7: 368, fig. 

 (tooth) [S. Pacific: Australia (Little Bay); type a skeleton in the 

 Sydney Museum]. 



