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Ziphius novce-zealandi ce Haast, 1876, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1876: 466, 

 pi. 15 (skeleton), pi. 16 (skull) [S. Pacific: New Zealand (type locality: 

 Lyttleton Harbor, Banks Peninsula); type a flensed individual with 

 soft parts and skeleton intact, skeleton in the Canterbury Museum, 

 New Zealand; perhaps now in British Museum (cf. Flower, 1885, 

 List Cetacea, p. 10 under ^iphius chathamensis)]. — Flower, 1876, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1876: 477 [synonyms: Z- chathamiensis Hector, 

 Z- indicus Van Beneden (Petrorhynchus capensis Gray), Z- australis Bur- 

 meister, Z- cavirostris Cuvier]. — Haast, 1877, Trans. New Zealand 

 Inst., 1876, 9: 430, pis. 24-26 (skeleton, skull, teeth) [S. Pacific: 

 New Zealand (Lyttleton Harbour, Banks Peninsula) ; osteology of type 

 skeleton]. 



Ziphius grebnitzkii Stejneger, 1883, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 6: 77 [N. 

 Pacific: U.S.S.R. (type locality: Komandorskye Island, eastern Si- 

 beria, Bering Sea); type, a skull, U.S. National Museum, no. 20993; 

 collected by L. Stejneger]. 



Type: Fossilized skull, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 

 collected in 1804, by Raymond Gorsse. 



Type locality : Between Fos and the mouth of the Galegeon, Depart- 

 ment des Bouches-du-Rhone, France. 



Distribution : The same as for the genus. 



Genus HYPEROODON Lacepede 



Hyperoodon Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xliv, 319. — Sonnini 

 (Lacepede), 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. 42, 438.— Van Beneden 

 and Gervais, 1880, Osteographie des cetaces, p. 356 [taxonomy]. — 

 Flower, 1883, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882: 722 [taxonomy].— Winge, 

 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 305 [characters; classification]. 



Hyprodon Dumeril, 1 806, Zool. Analy tique, p. 28 [emendation of Hypero- 

 odon Lacepede]. 



Uranodon Illiger, 1811, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium, p. 143 [emendation 

 of Hyperoodon Lacepede, 1804; type species: Delphinus Butzkopf (sic) 

 Bonnaterre]. 



Bidens Fischer, 1814, Zoognosia, Tabulis synopticis illustrata, 3: 686 

 [type species: Delphinus diodon "Hunter" (1787, Philos. Trans.) 

 (=Delphinus diodon Lacepede, 1804), by monotypy]. 



Heterodon Blainville, in Desmarest, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 9: 175 

 [included species: Anarnacus (sic) groenlandicus Lacepede (=Monodon 

 spurius Fabricius), Delphinus chemnitzianus Blainville (new name for 

 Balaena rostrata Miiller, 1778), Delphinus edentulus Schreber, Delphinus 

 bidentatus Blainville {—Delphinus diodon Lacepede), Delphinus butskode 

 (sic) Blainville (type, here selected= Hyperoodon butskopf Lacepede= 

 Balaena ampullata Forster), Delphinus sowerbensis Blainville (= Delphinus 



