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Rudolphius Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 170 [a sub- 

 genus of Sibbaldius (sic) Gray; type species: Sibbaldius laticeps Gray 

 (= Balaenoptera borealis Lesson)]. 



Fabricia Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 382 [type 

 species: Balaenoptera rostrata Fabricius (not Miiller) (=#. acutorostrata 

 Lacepede), by monotypy; name preoccupied by Fabricia Blainville 

 1828, a genus of Vermes]. 



Swinhoia Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 382 [subgenus of 

 Balaenoptera Lacepede ; type species : Balaenoptera swinhoei Gray (= Bal- 

 aena physalus Linnaeus), by tautonomy and monotypy]. 



Flowerius Lilljeborg, 1867, Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsala, (3), 6: 6, 11 

 [type species: Flowerius gigas Eschricht, (—Balaena musculus Linnaeus), 

 by monotypy]. 



Agaphelus Cope, 1868a, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 159 

 [included species: "Balaena gibbosa of Erxleben" (—Balaenoptera 

 acutorostrata Lacepede), type by original designation; Agaphelus glaucus 

 Cope (= Balaena gibbosa Erxleben)]; 1868b, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci 

 Philadelphia. 20: 223 [characters]. — Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, 

 Zool., 39: 560 [taxonomic status]. 



Stenobalana Gray, 1874, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 14: 305 [type species: 

 Stenobalcena xanthogaster Gray (= Balaena physalus Linnaeus), by mono- 



typy]- 



Dactylaena Gray, 1874, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 13: 449 [subgenus of 

 Balaenoptera Lacepede; type species: Balaenoptera Huttoni Gray (= Bal- 

 aenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede), by monotypy]. 



Eubalaenoptera Aclogue, 1900, Faune de France, 1 (Mammiferes) : 83 

 [subgenus of Balaenoptera Lacepede; included species: sibbaldi Gray 

 (= Balaena musculus Linnaeus, type, here selected), rostrata Fabricius 

 (=B. acutorostrata Lacepede), borealis Cuvier (=B. borealis Lesson), 

 musculus (=B. musculus authors, not Linnaeus=2?. physalus Linnaeus)]. 



Type species: Balaenoptera gibbar Lacepede (= Balaenoptera physalus 

 Linnaeus) by original designation and monotypy (i.e., "premiere espece" 

 of the "premier sous-genre," which included only the first species; cf. 

 Hershkovitz, 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 559). 



Distribution: All seas. 



Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede 



Balcena rostrata Fabricius, 1780, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 40 [N. Atlantic: 



Greenland Seas (not of Miiller, 177 6= Hyperoodon ampullata Forster 



1770)]. 

 Balcenoptera rostrata, Van Beneden and Gervais, 1880, Osteographie des 



cetaces, p. 146 [osteography]. — Van Beneden, 1887, Mem. Cour. 



Acad. Roy. Belgique, 41: 6, 13, 17 [characters; habits; distribution; 



parasites; collections; synonyms: acutorostrata Lacepede, minor "Knox," 



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