CATALOG OF LIVING WHALES 179 



fig. 19 (skull) U.S.S.R. (distribution) movements; concentrations; 

 migrations; natural history; economics]. 



Megaptera nodosa nodosa, Tomilin, 1946, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. U.R.S.S., 

 54(5): 468 [northern subspecies]; 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe 

 and northern Asia, 9: 328 [valid subspecies of northern hemisphere]. 



Balanoptera australis Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buff on, 

 l(Cetaces): 372 [S. Atlantic: South Africa (type locality: Cape of 

 Good Hope); name based on animal observed by M. Delalande]. 



Rorqaalus Australis, Hamilton, 1837, Jardine's Naturalists' Library, 

 Mammalia, 6 (whales): 146 [S. Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of Good 

 Hope) ; Tierra del Fuego ; characters] . 



Megaptera australis, Iredale and Troughton, 1934, Mem. Australian Mus., 

 6: 58 [S. Pacific: Australia (Tasmania); synonyms: lalandii Fischer, 

 novaezelandiae Gray]. 



B[alcena] Lalandii Fischer, 1829, Syn. Mamm., p. 525 [S. Atiantic: 

 South Africa (type locality : Cape of Good Hope) ; name based on a 

 skeleton in Paris Museum collected by Delalande and described as 

 "Rorqual du Cap" by Cuvier]. 



Megaptera lalandii, Gray, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 206, fig. 

 (cervical vertebra) [characters]. — Van Beneden and Gervais, 1880, 

 Osteographie des cetaces, p. 130, pi. 9 (skeleton of type) [osteology; 

 distribution; synonymy]. — Lonnberg, 1906, Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. 

 Akad. Handl., 40(5): 33, pi. 6, figs. 25, 27 (animal), fig. 26 (fetus); 

 pi. 8, fig. 38 (baleen) [S. Atlantic: South Georgia; characters; taxon- 

 omy; habits; synonymy]. 



Poescopia Lalandii, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 126 

 [characters; classification; synonyms: capensis Smith, poeskop Gray, 

 leucopteron Lesson]. 



Megaptera nodosa lalandii, Tomilin, 1946, Compt. Rend. (Doklady) 

 Acad. Sci. U.R.S.S., Moscow, 54(5): 468 [classification; thermoregula- 

 tion]. — Ivashin, 1958, Inf. Bull. Soviet Antarctic Exped. No. 3, Arctic 

 and Antarctic Sci. Res. Inst., Min. Marine Fleet, USSR, Leningrad 

 p. 77 [available name for southern race; characters; migrations]. 



Balcena longimana Rudolphi, 1832, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1829, p. 

 133, pi. 1 (skeleton), pis. 2, 3 (skull), pi. 4 (mandible), pi. 5 (animal, 

 baleen plate) [N. Atlantic: Germany [type locality: mouth of Elbe 

 River); type stranded November 1824; type skeleton in Berlin 

 Museum]. 



Megaptera longimana, Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. 

 Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 17 [classification]; 1864, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 207, figs. 5-7 (vertebrae), fig. la (rib) 

 [characters]. — True, 1898, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 21: 634 [nomencla- 

 ture; Balaena nodosa Bonnaterre a synonym]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of 

 whales, p. 164 [characters; habits; synonyms: hoops Fabricius, poeskop 



