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Mesoplodon longirostris Gray, 1873, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873: 145 

 [name based on ms. and photograph of a skeleton from Australia 

 submitted by Krefft]. 



Dolichodon Traversii Gray, 1874, Trans. New Zealand Inst., (1873), 6: 

 96 [S. Pacific: New Zealand (type locality: Chatham Island); name 

 based on specimen of Mesoplodon layardi recorded by Hector, 1873, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 11: 106]. 



Mesoplodon floweri Haast, 1876, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876: 8 (name 

 and indication), 478, pis. 45 (skeleton), pi. 46 (skull) [S. Pacific: 

 New Zealand (type locality: Saltwater Creek, 30 miles north of Banks 

 Peninsula); type skeleton in Canterbury Museum, New Zealand]. — 

 Haast, 1877, Trans. New Zealand Inst., (1876), 9: 442, pi. 25 (skeleton), 

 pi. 26 (skull, trunk, sternum) [S. Pacific: New Zealand (Saltwater 

 Creek) ; osteology of type]. 



M[esoplodon] thomsoni Ogilby, 1892, Catalogue of Australian mammals, 

 Australian Mus. Cat., 16: 71 [Krefft ms. name based on individual 

 stranded at Little Bay, near Sydney, Australia; regarded as the female 

 of M . layardi] . 



Mesoplodon thomsoni, Iredale and Troughton, 1934, Mem. Australian 

 Mus., 6 : 62 [in synonymy of Mesoplodon layardii Gray; name erroneously 

 attributed to Flower, 1878, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 10: 416, 

 "ex Krefft MS."]. 



Type: Name based on the drawings of a skull in the collection of the 

 South African Museum, Capetown, submitted to Gray, by Mr. E. Layard; 

 type skull presented 1869 by trustees of South African Museum to British 

 Museum, no. 69.4.5.2. 



Type locality: South Africa, probably off the Cape of Good Hope. 



Distribution: South Pacific and Indian Oceans from Australia and 

 New Zealand to the South Atlantic between the Falkland Islands and 

 South Africa. 



Mesoplodon densirostris Blainville 



Delphinus densirostris Blainville, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 9: 178. 



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

 [taxonomy ; ^iphius sechellensis Gray a synonym] . 



Mesoplodon densirostris, Harmer, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1924: 

 575, pis. 1-3 (skull), pi. 4 (mandible, sternum) [characters; £iphius 

 sechellensis Gray, 1846, a synonym]. — Longman, 1926, Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., 8: 260 [N. Atlantic: Madeira Islands; S. Pacific: Australia 

 (Queensland)]. — Moore, 1958, American Mus. Nov., 1897: 1, figs. 1-6 

 (skull, dentition) [N. Atlantic: Bahama Islands (Green Turtle Cay 

 bay, Abaco, 26°46' N, 77°18' W.); distribution].— Pringle, 1963, 

 Ann. Cape Prov. Mus., 3: 61, fig. (animal) [Indian: South Africa 

 (Shelly Beach near Cape Recife; Jeffreys Bay)]. 



