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Pterobalcena gryphus Munter, 1877, Mitth. Naturw. Verein von Neu 

 Vorpommern u Riigen, 9: 54 [N. Atlantic: Poland (type locality: 

 coast of Pomerania, Baltic Sea); type a skull in the Griefswalder 

 Anatomical Museum]. 

 Balcenoptera miramaris Lahille, 1898, Rev. Mus. La Plata, 9: 79, pi. 1 

 (animal), pis. 2-11 (skeleton) [S. Atlantic: Argentina (type locality: 

 Miramar, Buenos Aires) ; type, skeleton of stranded female in Museo 

 de La Plata]; 1905, Rev. Jardin Zool., Buenos Aires, 1905, p. 78 [type, 

 stranded Sept. 22, 1898; characters]. 

 Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda Zemsky and Boronin, 1964, Norsk Hvalf.- 

 Tid., 53(11): 310 TS. Indian (type locality: Crozet and Kerguelen 

 Islands) ; type, not designated ; name based on 1 individuals meas- 

 ured at sea during the 1962-63 season; one skeleton, at least, preserved, 

 presumably in the Atlantic Scientific Research Institute of Marine 

 Fisheries and Oceanography, U.S.S.R.]. 

 [Balanoptera musculus], Harmer, 1931, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 142: 85 

 [Antarctic; ecology; whaling; commerce]. — Kemp and Bennett, 1932, 

 Discovery Rep., 6: 165 [S. Atlantic: South Georgia, South Shetland]. — 

 Brown, 1954, Discovery Rep., 26: 355 [dispersal in South Seas]. 

 "Ostend whale" or "Baleine de Ostend," Van Breda, 1827, Eenige byzon- 

 derheden ontrent den Walvisch die den 5 den November 1827, by 

 Ostende gestrand is. Algem. Konst en letterbode, p. 341 Twork not 

 seen]. — Dubar, 1828, Osteographie de la baleine echouee a Test du port 

 d'Ostende, le 4 November 1827, Brussels, pis. 1-6 (cranial bones), 

 pis. 7-8 (vertebrae), pis. 9-10 (pelvis, scapula), pi. 11 (pectoral limb), 

 pi. 12 (tail fin), pi. 13 (genitalia, mammae, anus) [history; anatomy]. 

 "Pygmy blue whale," Ichihara, 1961, Norsk Hvalf.-Tid., 50(1) : 1, fig. 23 

 (animal), figs. 6, 7 (baleen) [Indian: Kerguelen Islands; characters; 

 statistics]; 1963, Norsk Hvalf.-Tid., 52: 128 [Antarctic: Kerguelen 

 Island; Crozet Island; Marion Island; size; color; baleen; compari- 

 sons]. 

 Type : None in existence ; name based primarily on the Balaena fistula 

 duplici of Artedi, 1738 (Synonymia nominum piscium, p. 107). 

 Type locality: "Mari Scotico," specifically, the Firth of Forth, Scotland. 

 Distribution: Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans but most 

 abundant north of 35° N. and south of 40° S. to pack ice in both hemi- 

 spheres; in South American waters from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on the 

 Atlantic, and Ecuador on the Pacific, southward to pack ice ; also recorded 

 from Cristobal, northern Panama, and Hawaii. 



Remarks: Zemsky and Boronin (1964, Norsk Hvalf.-Tid., 53: 306-311) 

 proposed Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda for the smaller-than-average-sized 

 blue whales of the Crozet, Kerguelen, and Heard Islands. That these 

 whales are isolated reproductively from others in the Southern Hemisphere, 

 as presumed, is moot. Earlier names for Southern Hemisphere blue whales, 



