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Nodus densirostris, Galbreath, 1963, Journ. Mammal., 44: 422 [N. Pacific 

 (Midway Island)]. 



Zjphius sechellensis Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus 

 and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 28, pi. 6, figs. 1, 2 (skull) [Indian: 

 Seychelles Islands (type locality) ; type a skull only in Paris Museum, 

 collected by Leduc]. 



Type : Distal 9 inches of rostrum, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris. 



Type locality: Unknown. 



Distribution: In eastern Atlantic: off the Madeira Islands and South 

 Africa; in western Atlantic: from off Nova Scotia, Canada, and Bahama 

 Islands; in western Pacific: off Lord Howe Islands and Queensland, 

 Australia; in northern Pacific: the Midway Islands; in Indian Ocean: 

 from South Africa (Algoa Bay) and off East Africa (Seychelles Islands) to, 

 presumably, Western Australia. 



Mesoplodon stejnegeri True 



Mesoplodon Stejnegeri True, 1885, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 8: 585; 1910, 

 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 73: 24, pis. 3, 6, 9, 10 (skulls), pis. 11, 12 

 (mandibles, teeth) [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Bering Islands); origin]. 



Mesoplodon stejnegeri, Orr, 1953, Journ. Mammal., 34: 241, fig. 1 (mandi- 

 ble, upper two figs, only) [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (California; Yaquina 

 Bay, Oregon; Egg Island, Alaska); characters; comparisons; bowdoini 

 regarded as a synonym]. — Nishiwaki and Kamiya, 1959, Sci. Rep. 

 Whale Res. Inst., Tokyo, 14: 35, fig. 10 (left tooth only) [part; N. 

 Pacific: "Aleutian waters"]. — Moore, 1963, Amer. Midi. Nat., 70: 396, 

 figs. 1-6, 10 (skulls) [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Commander Island, Bering 

 Sea; Pribilof Island; Egg Island near mouth of Copper River, Alaska; 

 Kasilof River, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska ; Nushagak Peninsula, Alaska ; 

 Waatch River, Washington ; Yaquina Bay, Oregon) ; Canada (Van- 

 couver Island, British Columbia); Japan (Akita Beach); characters; 

 comparisons ; distribution] . 



Nodus stejnegeri, Moore, 1963, Amer. Midi. Nat., 70: 416, fig. 9 (teeth) 

 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Alaska); generic name in caption only]. 



Mesoplodon bowdoini, Nishiwaki (not Andrews), 1962, Sci. Rep. Whales 

 Res. Inst., 16: 61, figs. 1, 2 (animal), fig. 3 (flukes), fig. 4 (vertebral 

 column), fig. 5 (snout), fig. 6 (ribs), pis. 1-3 (skull), pi. 4 (teeth), pi. 5 

 (vertebrae), pi. 6 (pectoral limbs, sternum, hyoid) [N. Pacific: Japan 

 (Shimohama Beach, Akita, Honshu); osteology; comparisons]. 



Type: Skull of young, without mandible, U.S. National Museum, no. 

 21112; collected 1883 by L. Stejneger. 



Type locality: Bering Island, Bering Sea, Siberia, U.S.S.R. 



