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Distribution : In the North Atlantic : from the North and Baltic Seas to 

 the Mediterranean and from Massachussets and Rhode Island to Florida 

 and the West Indies; in the South Atlantic: off South Africa and off 

 Argentina; in the North Pacific: from Bering Sea to Baja California on 

 the east, eastern Siberia and Japan on the west, and off the Hawaiian and 

 Midway Islands; in the South Pacific: from the Bismarck Archipelago 

 (New Ireland) to Australia and New Zealand on the west, off Chile on the 

 east; in the Indian Ocean: from South Africa to Australia. 



Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier 



^iphius cavirostris G. Cuvier, 1823, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 

 ed. 2, 5(1): 350, 352, pi. 27, fig. 3 (skull) .—Turner, 1872, Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. Edinburgh, 26: 759, pis. 29-30 (skull) [Atlantic; taxonomy; 

 synonyms: ^iphius indicus Van Beneden 1863, Petrorhynchus capensis 

 Gray, Delphinorhynchus australis Burmeister, Epiodon australe Burmeister, 

 ^iphiorhynchus cryptodon Burmeister, Epiodon patachonicus Burmeister]. — 

 Flower, 1876, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876: 477 [characters; syno- 

 nyms: Ziphius novaezelandiae Haast, Epiodon chathamiensis Hector]. — 

 Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 10 [S. Atlantic: South Africa 

 (Cape of Good Hope) ; type of capensis Gray, skull no. 1517a-69.4.5.1]. — 

 Van Beneden, 1888, Mem. Cour. Autr. Mem. Acad. Roy. Belgique, 

 41 : 77 (separate) [history; characters; habits; distribution; specimens; 

 parasites]. — Forbes, 1893, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893: 219, pi. 14, 

 fig. 1 (rostrum of skull) [growth of rostrum, £. chathamensis (sic) Hector 

 a synonym]. — Moreno, 1895, Anal. Mus. La Plata, Zool., 3: 3 [S. 

 Atlantic: Argentina (Bahia de San Antonio, Rio Negro)].— Beddard, 

 1900, Book of whales, p. 233, pi. 13 (animal) [taxonomic history; 

 characters]. — Lahille, 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool., Buenos Aires, 1905, 

 p. 69 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Bahia San Antonio)]. — True, 1910, 

 Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 73: 30, 77, pis. 14-23 (skulls, mandibles), pi. 24 

 (mandibles, vertebrae), pi. 25 (sternum, limb bones) [characters; 

 osteology].— Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol, 3: 59, fig. 8 (skull) 

 [characters; relationship]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant 

 fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 275, fig. 70 (animal) [characters; 

 comparisons].— Kellogg, 1940, Nat. Geogr. Mag., 77(1): 69, pi. 10 

 (animal) [characters; habits]. — Cabrera and Yepes, 1940, Mamiferos 

 sudamericanos, p. 303, pi. 74 (animal) [characters]. — Hubbs, 1946, 

 Journ. Mammal., 27: 243, pi. 1 (animal, head, flukes), pis. 2, 3 (skull) 

 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Del Mar, San Diego, California); characters; 

 comparisons]; 1951, Journ. Mammal., 32: 365 [N. Pacific: Mexico 

 (San Ramon, Baja California, 30° 42.7' S.; occurrence probable)]. — 

 Richards, 1952, Journ. Mammal., 33: 255 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Ha- 

 waii)]. — Barnard, 1954, Guide book to South African whales and dol- 

 phins, South African Mus., p. 18, fig. 9 (head, mandible) [not certainly 



