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guerite Island, Mediterranean Sea) ; name based on the specimen 

 stranded Mar. 21, 1798, and recorded by Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. 

 Cetacees, p. 132, pi. 5, fig. 1 (animal)]. 



Balanoptera mediterranensis [sic], Cabrera, 1961, Rev. Mus. Argentino 

 Cienc. Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia," 4(2): 621 [misspelling for 

 mediterraneensis Lesson]. 



P[hy salts (sic)] vulgaris Fleming, 1828, History of British animals, p. 32 

 [new name for Balana phy salts (sic) Fabricius]. 



B[alana] Antiquorum Fischer, 1829, Synopsis mammalium, p. 525 [N. 

 Atlantic : Mediterranean Sea (type locality) ; name based on the Medi- 

 terranean "rorqual" recorded by Cuvier, 1823, Rech. Oss. Foss., 5: 

 370, pi. 26, fig. 5 (skull)]. 



B[alana] Quoyi Fischer, 1829, Syn. Mamm., p. 526 [new name for B. 

 rostrata australis Desmoulins; S. Atlantic: Falkland Islands (type 

 locality)]. 



Balanoptera quoyii [sic], Lonnberg, 1906, Kongl. Svenska Vet. Akad. 

 Handl., 40(5): 28, pi. 5, figs. 18, 21-23 (animal); pi. 8, fig. 37 (baleen) 

 [S. Atlantic: South Georgia; characters; habits; synonyms: B. australis 

 authors, B. patachonica Burmeister]. 



Balanoptera phy salus quoyii [sic], Tomilin, 1946, Compt. Rend. (Doklady) 

 Acad. Sci, U.R.S.S., 54(5): 468 [S. Atlantic: Falklands; classification; 

 thermoregulation ] . 



Balanoptera phy salus quoyi, Tomilin, 1957, Animals of eastern Europe and 

 northern Asia, 9: 200 [valid subspecies of southern hemisphere]. 



Balanoptera Aragous Farines and Carcassone, 1829, Memoire sur un 

 cetace echoue 27 Nov. 1928 [sic=1828] sur la cote de Saint-Cyprien 

 (Perpignan), pp. 1-27, pi. (head of animal) [work not seen; N. Atlan- 

 tic: France (type locality: coast of Saint Cyprien, Pyrenees Orien tales, 

 Mediterranean Sea)]. — Farines and Carcassone, 1829, Ferussac Bull. 

 Sci. Nat., 19: 349 [abstract of original description; regarded as a 

 synonym of B. hoops Linnaeus by commentator Blainville]. 



R[orqualus] musculus F. Cuvier, 1836, Hist. Nat. Cetaces, p. 334 [name 

 based on the "rorqual de la Mediterranee" of Lacepede (1804, Hist. 

 Nat. Cetacees, p. 132, pi. 5, fig. 1) stranded on Sainte Marguerite 

 Island]. 



Balanoptera tenuirostris Sweeting, 1840, Mag. Nat. Hist., 4: 343 [N. Atlan- 

 tic: England (type locality: Charmouth Beach); type a stranded whale 

 "property of John Bullen Esq., as Lord of the Manor of Marshwood, 

 and Lord Paramount of the Hundred"]. 

 Balana sulcata arctica Schlegel, 1841, Abh. Gebiete Zool. Vergl. Anat., 

 1: 38, pi. 6 (animal) [N. Atlantic: Netherlands (type locality); type a 

 skeleton in the Leiden museum; name preoccupied by B. mysticetus 

 arctica Schlegel (1841, op. cit., p. 36)]. 



