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'Minke" or "little piked whale," Marr, 1962, Discovery Rep., 32: 127 

 '[krill feeding]. 



Type: Name based on general accounts by authors and the description 

 of a young individual stranded 1791 near Cherbourg, France. 



Type locality: Cherbourg, France. 



Distribution : In North Atlantic and Arctic : from Spitzbergen, Novaya 

 Zemlya, and Baffin Bay to the Mediterranean and Black Seas and Florida ; 

 in South Atlantic : from the Cape of Good Hope on the east and Rio de La 

 Plata, Argentina, on the west, southward to the Antarctic ice shelf; in 

 North Pacific: from Siberian waters and Bering Sea to Baja California on 

 the east, and to Sea of Japan and Yellow Sea on the west; in South Pacific: 

 from Australia, New Zealand, and Chile to shelf ice (78° S.); in Indian 

 Ocean: from South Africa to Bay of Bengal and Java. 



Remarks: Balaenoptera bonaerensis Burmeister (with huttoni Gray a syno- 

 nym) is regarded by Williamson (1959, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 133: 

 135) as a distinct species confined to the southern hemisphere. The 

 distinguishing characters are gray flippers, 200-230 baleen plates colored 

 white or yellow with dark borders. Individual variation in the color of 

 the flippers and other characters has already been noted by True (1904, 

 Whalebone whales, pp. 192, 209), by Lillie (1915, Terra Nova Exped., 

 Zool., 1(3): 114), Utrecht and Van der Spoel (1962, Zeitschr. Sauget., 

 27: 217), and others. Color and number of baleen plates are also individ- 

 ually variable, by Williamson's own account. 



Balaenoptera edeni Anderson 



Balanoptera edeni Anderson, 1878, Anatomical and zoological research; 

 comprising an account of zoological results of two expeditions to western 

 Yunnan in 1868 and 1875, London, pp. 551-564, figs. 21-25 (vertebrae), 

 fig. 26 (rib), fig. 27 (humerus), fig. 28 (hyoid), pi. 44 (skull, cervical 

 vertebrae)]. — Blanford, 1891, Fauna of British India, p. 568 [Indian: 

 Bay of Bengal; characters]. — Junge, 1950, Zool. Verh. Rijksmus. Nat. 

 Hist., Leiden, 9; pis. 1-3 (skull), pi. 7 (vertebrae), pi. 8 (atlas; hyoid; 

 scapula) [Indian : Malaya (Pulu Sugi between Singapore and Sumatra) ; 

 B. brydei Olsen a synonym].— Best, 1960, Norsk Havlf-Tid., 19(5): 

 201, figs. 1, 2 (animals) [S. Atlantic: South Africa (Saldanha Bay); 

 habits; reproduction]. 



B[alanoptera] edeni, Nishiwaki, 1957, Coll. Rep. Fish. Sci., Tokyo Univ., 

 p. 149 [N. Pacific: Japan]. 



Balaenoptera edeni, Omura, 1959, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. Inst., Tokyo, 

 14: 1, fig. 1 (lacrymal, malar), figs. 2, 4 (vertebrae), fig. 5 (pelvic 

 bones, sternum), fig. 6 (hyoid bones), fig. 7 (scapula); pis. 1-3 (skull); 

 pis. 4, 5, figs. 1, 2 (vertebrae); pi. 5, fig. 3 (flipper skeleton); pi. 6 

 (ribs) [N. Pacific : Japan (eastern, western, and southern coasts) ; 

 distribution (40° N. to 40° S.); taxonomic history; external characters; 

 osteology; comparisons; brydei a synonym]. — Best, 1960, Norsk Hvalf.- 



