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Cetaces, pp. 41, 426, pi. 5, fig. 2 ("bottle-nosed whale ex Hunter") 



[characters]. 

 Delphinus chemnitzianus Blainville, in Desmarest, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 



Nat., 9: 175 [N. Atlantic: Spitzbergen (type locality); name based on 



Balaena rostrata of Chemnitz, 1779]. 

 Hyperoodon borealis Nilsson, 1820, Skandinavisk fauna, 1 : 404 [substitute 



name for the "bottle-head whale" of authors; part synonyms: Balaena 



rostrata Pontopiddian, "beaked whale" Pennant, Delphinus edentulus 



Schreber]; 1847, Skandinavisk fauna, 1: 622 [N. Atlantic: Scandi- 

 navian waters; characters]. 

 Delphinus hunteri Desmarest, 1822, Mammalogie, 2: 520 [name based on 



the "bottle-nosed whale" of Hunter]. 

 Ceto-diodon Hunteri Jacob, 1825, Dublin Philos. Journ. Sci. Rev., 



1825, 1 : 72 [N. Atlantic: Ireland (type locality: Killiney, near Dublin) ; 



type stranded September 1825; type skeleton and anatomical parts in 



the Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin]. 

 Delphinus hyperoodon Desmarest, 1822, Mammalogie, 2: 521 [new name for 



Delphinus butskopf Bonnaterre, based on the "dauphin de Honfleur" 



of Baussard]. 

 Hyperoodon honfloriensis Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buff on, 



pp. 137, 140 [new name for Delphinus butskopf Bonnaterre and Lacepede 



based on the Honfleur whale of Baussard] . 

 Delphinus quadridens Burguet, 1843, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 13: 304 



[N. Atlantic: France (type locality: Arcachon); type a skeleton, the 



mandible only originally in the defunct Museum Rodrigues, Bordeaux, 



now missing]. 

 Hyperoodon latifrons Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus 



and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 27, pi. 4 (skull) [N. Atlantic: Scotland 



(type locality: Orkney Islands); type a skull only]. — Flower, 1885, 



List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 10 [type "an imperfect cranium, and 



considerable portion of skeleton; very old male," Brit. Mus., no. 1378^]. 

 Lagenocetus latifrons, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 339 



[characters] . 

 Lagocetus [sic] latifrons, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., 



p. 82 (in text) [characters]. 

 H[yperoodon] Baussardi Duvernoy, 1851, Ann. Sci. Nat., (3), 15: 67 



[name based primarily on the "butzkopf" or "dauphin de Honfleur" 



of Baussard]. 

 Type: Name based on the bottle-nosed whales seen at sea by Kalm 

 "everywhere in the ocean from the channel to the very neighborhood of 

 America," and, basically, on Pennant's description of Dale's "bottle-head 

 whale" found stranded in 1717. 



Type locality: Maldon, Essex, England, the locale of Dale's specimen. 



