CATALOG OF LIVING WHALES 165 



piscium, p. 16), a composite, but here restricted; type locality: "Arctic 

 seas"]. 



[?] Balcena rostrata major, Rosenthal, 1827, Einige naturh. Bemerk. iiber 

 die Walle, Greifswald, pi. 1, in Rosenthal and Hornschirch, Epistola de 

 Balaenopt. quibusdem. Gryph. 1825 [N. Atlantic: Germany (type 

 locality : west coast of Riigen, Baltic Sea) ; type skeleton in Greifswald 

 Museum; work not seen, cited ex Wagner, 1846, Schreber's Saugthiere, 

 7: 213].— Flower, 1870, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 605, ftn., 

 [listed as a synonym of B. antiquorum]. 



B[alaena] physalis Kerr, 1792, Animal kingdom, p. 358 [name based 

 primarily on Artedi (1738, Genera piscium, 77, p. 107); the common 

 finback or B. physalus Linnaeus], 



Balcenoptera gibbar Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xxxvi, 114, 

 pi. 1, fig. 2 (animal) [N. Atlantic (type locality: Arctic seas, 

 particularly about Greenland) ; name based on authors' accounts and 

 derived from the "gibbar" of Rondelet (1558, Histoire des poissons, 

 1, livr. 16, chap. 8, Lyon)]. 



Balcenoptera rorqual Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xxxvii, 126, 

 pi. 1, fig. 2 (animal), pi. 6 (skull), pi. 7 (vertebrae, baleen plate) 

 [N. Atlantic (type locality; Scottish seas); name based on authors' 

 accounts and derived from the "rorqual" of Bonnaterre (1789, Cetologie, 

 p. 7)]. 



Balcena sulcata Neill, 1811, Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc, 1: 212 

 [N. Atlantic: Scotland (type locality: Firth of Forth, above Alloa); 

 type description based on specimen stranded Oct. 23, 1808; name 

 from Walker ms. description, based on animal stranded nearby in 

 June 1761]. 



Balcena rostrata australis Desmoulins, 1822, Diet. Classique Hist. Nat., 2: 

 164 [name based on animal observed by Quoy; name preoccupied by 

 Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822 (=Eubalaena glacialis australis 

 Desmoulins)]. 



Balcenoptera australis, Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. 

 Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 51 ["southern finner."]. 



Physalus? australis, Gray, 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, p. 43 

 [S. Atlantic: Falklands; synonyms: Balaena quoyii Fisher, B. rostrata 

 australis Desmoulins]; 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 161 

 [characters ex Desmoulins]. 



Physalus australis, Gray, 1850, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 396 [S. 

 Adantic: Patagonia]. 



[Physalus] verus Billberg, 1828, Synopsis faunae Scandinavian, p. 41 [new 

 name for Balaena physalus Linnaeus]. 



Balcenoptera mediterraneensis Lesson, 1828, Complements des oeuvres de 

 Buffon, pp. 442, 361 [N. Atlantic: France (type locality: Sainte Mar- 



