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R[orqualus] hoops, F. Cuvier (not Linnaeus), 1836, Histoire naturelle des 

 cetaces, pp. 308, 321 [part (not pi. 20, and most of text) new name for 

 Balaenoptera jubartes Lacepede; characters; history]. 



Physalns (Rorqualus) Sibbaldii Gray, 1847, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1847: 92 [N. Atlantic: England (type locality: coast of Yorkshire, 

 North Sea) ; type a skeleton in the Museum of the Hull Literary and 

 Philosophical Society. 



Balanoptera sibbaldii, Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 6 [type an 

 articulated skeleton of young individual, Brit. Mus., no. 1465a-65.8.23.1 ; 

 latirostris Flower, 1865 a synonym]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, 

 p. 153 [characters]. — Morch, 1911, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911: 

 661 [S. Atlantic: Patagonia; Falklands; South Georgia; South Shet- 

 lands] . 



Balanoptera Sibbaldi, Van Beneden, 1887, Mem. Cour. Acad. Roy. 

 Belgique, 41: 6, 13, 107 [taxonomy; characters; habits; parasites; 

 distribution; synonyms: intermedia Burmeister, antarcticus Burmeister]. — 

 Lahille, 1899, Primera reunion del Congreso Latinoamericano, 3: 97 

 [S. Atlantic : Argentina (Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego) ; intermedia 

 Burmeister a synonym]. — Salvesen, 1914, Scottish National Antarctic 

 Expedition, 4 (Zool.), pt. 19: 482 [S. Atlantic: Falklands; whaling 

 industry]. — Bruce, 1915, Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 4 

 (Zool.), pt. 20: 487 [S. Atlantic: Graham Land].— Turner, 1915, Proc. 

 Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, 35: 11 [S. Atlantic: South Shetlands; 

 Graham Land]. 



Balcenoptera gigas Reinhardt, 1857, in Rink, Gronland geografisk og 

 statistik beskrevet, Copenhagen, 1(2): 10 [work not seen; N. Atlantic 

 (type locality: Greenland seas)]; 1860, in Rink, Gronland, geograph- 

 isch und statistisch beschreiben [translation from the original Danish], 

 p. 577 [the "tunnolik" of the Esquimos; apparently a nomen nudum or 

 nomen dubium here]. — Lilljeborg, 1866, Synopsis of the cetaceous 

 mammalia of Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway), Ray Society, 

 London, p. 262 [characters of skeletons from Ostend and Greenland]. 



Pterobalaena gigas, Van Beneden, 1861, Mem. Acad. Roy. Belgique, 32: 

 37 [characters; name for "Ostend whale" of authors; Balaena rostrata 

 Rudolphi, 1822 (=B. borealis), also regarded as a synonym]; 1868, 

 Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belgique, 25: 102 [bibliography]. 



Rorqualus major Knox, 1870, Trans. New Zealand Inst., (1869), 2: 21, 

 23, pi. 2a, fig. 1 (skeleton) [redescription and new name for type of 

 Rorqualus borealis Hamilton, 1837]. 



Balanoptera indica Blyth, 1859, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 28: 488 

 [Indian: India (type locality: Sordip, Bay of Bengal); type, a jaw bone 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, presented by Mr. J. Kyd]. — Blanford, 

 1891, Fauna of British India, p. 567 [Indian: Bay of Bengal and Arabian 

 Sea]. 



