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"pygmy" or other crop or niche variables, include indica Blyth 1859, 

 antarcticus Burmeister 1866, intermedia Burmeister 1871, miramaris Lahille 

 1898. 



Genus MEGAPTERA Gray 



Megaptera Gray, 1846a, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (1), 17: 83; 1846b, 

 Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia) : 

 16 [included species: Balaena nodosa Bonnaterre (= Balaena novaeangliae 

 Borowski), Balaenoptera (sic) Poeskop Desmoulins (= Megaptera Poeskop 

 Gray— novaeangliae Borowski), longimana Rudolphi (= novaeangliae Borow- 

 ski), Megaptera Americana Gray (=-6. novaeangliae Borowski), Balaenoptera 

 antarctica Temminck (=B. novaeangliae Borowski)]. — Kellogg, 1928, 

 Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 33 et seq., 191 [history; relationships; characters.] — 

 Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 306 [characters; classifica- 

 tion]. 



Megapteron Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and 

 Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 51 [included species: Megapteron longimana 

 (here designated type= Balaena longimana Rudolphi=5. novaeangliae 

 Borowski), Megapteron Americana (= Megaptera americana Gray= Balaena 

 novaeangliae Borowski) ; generic name apparently a lapsus for Megaptera 

 Gray]. 



Perqualus Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and 

 Terror, 1 (Mammalia): pi. 32 (caption) [subgenus of Balaenoptera; 

 type species: B. boops (=of Fabricius not lAnnaexjiS= Balaena novaeangliae 

 Borowski)]. 



Kyphobalana Eschricht, 1849, K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, Nat. 

 Math. Afd. Copenhagen, (5), 1: 108 [type species: Kyphobalaena boops 

 Fabricius (not Linnaeus) (= Balaena novaeangliae Borowski), by mono- 



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Poescopia Gray, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 207 [subgenus of 

 Megaptera Gray; included species: Balaena lalandii Fischer (type, =B. 

 novaeangliae Borowski), Megaptera nov<z-zjelandiae Gray (=-S. novaeangliae 

 Borowski)]; 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 125 [genus]. 



Poeskopia Gervais, 1871, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 7: 88 

 [emendation of Poescopia Gray, 1864]. 



Cyphobalcena Marschall, 1873, Nomen. Zool. Mamm., p. 5 [emendation of 

 Kyphobalcena Eschricht, 1849]. 



Megapterina Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and northern 

 Asia, 9(Cetacea): 274 [supergeneric category erected by Gray (1864, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 205) erroneously listed as a generic 

 name in synonymy of Megaptera Gray]. 



Type species: Megaptera longipinna Gray (sic= Balaena longimana 

 Rudolphi=Z?a/tf£fta novaengliae Borowski), by monotypy. 

 Distribution : All seas from Arctic to Antarctic. 



