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Sibbaldus Schlegelii Gray, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), 14: 352 

 [nomen nudum]. 



[Sibbaldius] schlegelii Flower, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 408 

 [Indian : Java (type locality) ; type a skeleton in the Leiden museum]. — 

 Jentink, 1887, Cat. Osteologique Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat. Pays-Bas, 

 9: 178 [type skeleton in Leiden museum, from northwest coast of Java, 

 received 1864]. 



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

 Cetaces, p. 220, pis. 14, 15 (skeleton of type) [osteology]. 



Belcenoptera [sic] Schlegeli, Lahille, 1899, Primera reunion del Gongreso 

 Latinoamericano, 3: 198 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (Tres Arroyos, 

 Buenos Aires; Isla de los Estados, Tierra del Fuego)]. 



Balcenoptera Schlegeli, Lahille, 1914, Enumeration y zoogeografia de los 

 mamiferos de la Republica Argentina, p. 33 [S. Pacific: Chile (Cape 

 Horn)]. 



Balcenoptera schlegellii [sic], Dabbene, 1902, Anal. Mus. Buenos Aires, (3), 

 1: 350 [S. Atlantic: Tierra del Fuego]. 



Balcenoptera borealis schlegelii, Tomilin, 1946, Compt. Rend. (Doklady), 

 Acad. Sci. U.R.S.S., Moscow, 54(5): 468 [classification; thermo- 

 regulation]; 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia, 

 9: 239 [southern race distinguished by larger size]. 



Balcenoptera alba Giglioli, 1870, Faun. Vert. Nell' Oceano, Viaggio 

 Globo, R. P. Magenta, p. 74 [Indian: Java Sea (type locality); type 

 an albino seen at sea.] 



Pterobalcena (Sibbaldius) alba, Giglioli, 1874, Cetacei osservati durante il 

 viaggio in torno al globo dela R. pirocorvetta Magenta 1865-1868, 

 Naples, p. 52, pi. 2 (animal) [Indian: Java (type locality: west of 

 Djakarta); characters; comparisons; regarded as probably identical 

 with Sibbaldius schlegelii Flower]. 



Pterobalaena schlegeli alba, Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe 

 and northern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 200 [cited in synonymy of Balaenoptera 

 borealis Lesson]. 



Type: Skeleton in Berlin Museum, originally described and figured by 

 Rudolphi in 1822 as Balaena rostrata, then as the "rorqual du nord" by 

 Cuvier (1823, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 5: 373, pi. 26, fig. 6); 

 type stranded Feb. 21, 1819. 



Type locality: Coast of Holstein near Gromitz, Schleswig-Holstein, 

 Germany. 



Distribution: All seas; in Arctic Ocean and North Atlantic: from 

 Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, Davis Strait, and Labrador to Spain, 

 Mediterranean Sea, and northern Africa as far as Cap Blanc on the east 

 and to Campeche, Mexico, on the west; in South Atlantic: from Angola 



