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eschrichtii Rasch, bonaerensis Burmeister, davidsoni Scammon, huttoni 

 Gray]. — Turner, 1915, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, 35: 11, 

 figs. 1, 2 (tympanic bone), fig. 3 (foetus) [S. Atlantic: S. Shetlands; 

 Graham Land; tympanic bone]. 



Balcenoptera acuto-ro strata Lacepede, 1804, Nat. Hist. Cetacees, pp. xxxvii, 

 134, pi. 4, fig. 2 (animal), pi. 8 (animal). — Sonnini (Lacepede), 1804, 

 Nat. Hist. Cetacees, pp. 33, 218 [characters]. — Thomas, 1898, Zoologist, 

 (4), 2: 99 [Balaena rostrata Fabricius, 1780, preoccupied by B. rostrata 

 Miiller, 1776].— True, 1898, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 21: 635 [Balaena 

 rostrata Fabricius, 1780, "preoccupied" by B. rostrata Miiller, 1776 

 (Zool. Danicae Prodr., p. 7), regarded as unidentifiable]. — Racovitza, 

 1903, Expedition Antarctique Belgique, Cetacea, pp. 40, 56 [distribu- 

 tion: 73° S. to 76° S.; characters; breaching; blowing; diving]. — 

 True, 1904, Whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic, pp. 192, 

 301, pi. 49, fig. 1 (animal) [characters; distribution in North Atlan- 

 tic].— Lahille, 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool., Buenos Aires, 1905, p. 73 [S. 

 Atlantic]; 1908, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, 16 (ser. 3, no. 9), p. 

 375, fig. 1 (skull), fig. 2 (vertebrae), pi. 1 (skull) [characters; compari- 

 sons]. — Liouville, 1913, Deuxieme expedition antarctique francaise, 

 pp. 1, 111, fig. 88 (leaping animal) [taxonomy; history; characters; 

 habits; synonyms: bonaerensis Burmeister, huttoni Gray, racovitzai 

 Lahille]. — Lillie, 1915, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 

 1910, p. 113, pi. 4, figs. 2, 3 (head and mouth of calf), pi. 5 (head and 

 body of calf), pi. 6 ("blowing") [S. Pacific: distribution 52°16' S., to 

 78°10' S.; Neobalaena marginata Wilson (not Gray) a synonym]. — 

 Marelli, 1918, Physis, 4: 327, fig. (stranded animal) [S. Atlantic: 

 Argentina (Estacion Rivadavia, Rio de La Plata, 3 leagues above 

 Buenos Aires)]. — Omura, 1957, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. Inst., Tokyo, 

 12: 1, figs. 2, 3, 5-10 (bones of postcranial skeleton), pis. 1-4 (skull), 

 pis. 5-8 (ribs, vertebrae) [N. Pacific: Japan (Ayukawa); osteology; 

 davidsoni a synonym]. 



Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Oliver, 1922, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922: 

 563 [S. Pacific: New Zealand]. — Iredale and Troughton, 1934, Mem. 

 Australian Mus., 6: 58 [S. Pacific: Australia (Tasmania); New Zealand; 

 B. huttoni Gray a synonym]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, 

 Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 231, fig. 65 [characters; habits; dis- 

 tribution] .—Kellogg, 1940, Nat. Geogr. Mag., 77(1): 57, pi. 2 (animal), 

 figs. p. 36 (animal blowing) characters; habits; distribution]. — Cabrera 

 and Yepes, 1940, Mamiferos sudamericanos, p. 314 [S. Atlantic: 

 Argentina (Rio de La Plata); characters; habits]. — Mackintosh, 1946, 

 Biol. Rev., 21: 61, 66 [breeding; gestation; growth; food; distribu- 

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

 phins, South African Mus. Guide, 4: 13, fig. 5 (animal) [S. Atlantic: 

 South Africa]. — Laws, 1956, Nature, London, 178: 194 [length at 



