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Tid. 49: 201, fig. 1 (underside of animal), fig. 2 (baleen) [characters; 

 distribution; movements; reproduction; food]. — Marr, 1960, Discovery 

 Rep., 32: 127 [non-Antarctic and nonkrill feeder]. 

 Balcenoptera brydei Olsen, 1912, Tid ens Tegn., Nov. 12 [Norwegian news- 

 paper, not seen]; 1913, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913: 1073, pis. 109- 

 111 (animal), pi. 112 (baleen), pi. 113 (foetus) [S. Atlantic: South 

 Africa (type locality : Saldanha Bay, western Cape Province) ; types, 

 12 specimens examined in Durban and Saldanha Bay in 1912 and 1913 

 without indication that any were preserved; characters; habits; 

 parasites]. — Harmer, 1928, Proc. Linnaean Soc. London, 140: 69, 87 

 [history of whaling; distribution]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 

 1938, Giant fishes, whales and dolphins, p. 234 [N. Atlantic: West 

 Indies (Grenada); characters; habits]. — Mackintosh, 1946, Biol. Rev., 

 21: 61, 66 [Atlantic: Norway, South Africa, West Indies, Mexico 

 (Baja California)].— Ruud, 1952, Norsk Hvalf.-Tidend., 41(12): 662 

 [Atlantic: French West Africa]. — Budker, 1959, Whales and whaling, 

 p. 37 [characters].— Chittleborough, 1959, Norsk Hvalf.-Tid., 48: 62, 

 pi. 1 (animal), pi. 2 (baleen) [Indian: Australia (Shark Bay)]. — Fraser 

 and Purves, 1960, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 7: 35, fig. 12 

 (pterygoid) [auditory system]. 



Balcenoptera [sic] brydei, Cadenat, 1957, Bull. Inst. Francais Afrique Noire, 

 19(A): 1358 [N. Atlantic: Senegal].— Chittleborough, 1959, Norsk 

 Hvalf.-Tid., 48(2): 62, pi. 1 (animal), pi. 2 (baleen) [Indian: Australia 

 (Shark Bay); Borneo; Bonin Islands; characters]. — Soot-Ryen, 1961, 

 Norsk Hvalf.-Tid., 50(8): 323, fig. 1 (nasals), pis. 1-3 (skull, vetebra, 

 ribs, scapula, anterior limb bones) [N. Atlantic: Curasao; characters; 

 comparisons; regarded as nominally distinct from B. edeni]. 



Balaenoptera acutoro strata, Cabrera (part, not Lacepede), 1961, Rev. Mus. 

 Argentino Cienc. Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia," 4: 620 [B. edeni 

 Anderson in synonymy only]. 



Type: Skeleton, mounted, Indian Museum, Calcutta; collected by Major 

 A. G. Duff, Deputy Commissioner of British Burma, and M. Duke, 

 assistant. 



Type locality : Thaybyoo Choung, Gulf of Martaban, between Sittang 

 and Beeling Rivers, Burma. 



Distribution: Indian Ocean: from Australia to South Africa; in the 

 Atlantic: from Cape of Good Hope to Senegal and Norway (?) on the 

 east, the Caribbean (Grenada; Curacao) on the west; in the Pacific: 

 recorded from Baja California, Barin Islands, Japan, and New Zealand. 

 The species may occur off the coast of Ecuador as mentioned ty Tomilin 

 (1962, Cetaceans of the U.S.S.R., Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 61) but I find no 

 authentic record. Cabrera (1961, Rev Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat. 

 "Bernardino Rivadavia," 4: 624) includes the Ross Sea in the summer 

 range but gives no documentation. Slijper (1962, Whales [English transl.], 



