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Balaenoptera patachonicus Burmeister, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1865: 190, figs. 1-11 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (type locality: Rio de 

 La Plata, near mouth) ; type skull, female, in Buenos Aires museum] ; 

 1872, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 10: 413 [S. Atlantic: Argentina 

 (near mouth of Rio de La Plata, Buenos Aires); comparisons]; 1881, 

 Erlaut. Fauna Argentina (Descr. Rep. Argentina, Atlas, Mamm.), 

 pp. 12, 37, pi. 3 (skull), pi. 4 (vertebrae), pis. 6-8 (sternum, ribs, pec- 

 toral bones) [characters; comparisons]. 

 Physalus Patachonicus, Burmeister, 1866, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), 18: 

 495 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (mouth of Rio de La Plata)]. — Gray, 

 1866, Gat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 374, fig. 76 (skull), figs. 77-80 

 (cervical vertebrae), figs. 81-84 (rib heads), fig. 85 (scapula), fig. 86 

 (portion of mandible) [characters ex Burmeister]. — Burmeister, 1867a, 

 Zeitschr. gesammten naturw., 29: 8 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (type 

 stranded at Quilmes, mouth of Rio de La Plata, south of Buenos Aires) ] ; 

 1867b, Anal. Mus. Publ. Buenos Aires, 1: 310 [S. Atlantic: Argentina 

 (type, a partial skeleton found at Quilmes, Rio de La Plata, in 1832)]; 

 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 112 [characters].— Figueira, 1894, 

 Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo, 2: 13 (separate) [S. Atlantic]. — Troues- 

 sart, 1898, Cat. Mamm., p. 1082 [synonyms: musculus Van Beneden 

 (part, not Linnaeus), 1888; australis Gray 1866 (not Lesson, 1828); 

 quoyi Fischer; tschudii Reichenbach, 1846; fasciatus Gray, 1850; ?grayi 

 MacCoy, 1867 (Zool. Pal. Victoria); antarctica Gray (part, not Gray, 

 1865)]. 



Balcenoptera patachonica, Lahille, 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool. Buenos Aires, 

 1905, p. 76 [type in Buenos Aires Museum]. 



Balcenoptera patagonica [sic], Dabbene, 1902, Anal. Mus. Buenos Aires, 

 (3), 1: 350 [S. Atlantic: Tierra del Fuego].— Lahille, 1914, Enumera- 

 tion y zoogeografia de los mamiferos de la Republica Argentina, p. 33 

 [S. Atlantic: a variety of B. physalus]. 



Balcenoptera swinhoii Gray, 1866a, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865: 725, 

 figs. 1-6 (vertebrae) [N. Pacific: Formosa (type locality); type, skull, 

 vertebrae, ribs in British Museum]; 1866b, Cat. seals and whales 

 Brit. Mus., p. 382, figs. 88-93 [characters]. 



B[alcenoptera] swinhoei [sic], Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, p. 16 [reference]. 



Swinhoia chinensis Gray, 1868, Synopsis whales and dolphins Brit. Mus., 

 p. 3 [new name for Balaenoptera swinhoii Gray]. 



Balcenoptera velifera Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 16, 

 figs. 9, 10 (sketches of animal) [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (type locality: 

 "Oregon coasts") ; name based on the "Oregon finner" described by 

 Scammon, 1874, Marine mammals, pp. 34, 303, pi. 2, fig. 2 (animal), 

 but available to Cope prior to Scammon's 1874 publication]. 



