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Desmoulins, lalandi Fischer, capensis Smith, novaeangliae Gray, burmeisteri 

 Gray, antarctica Temminck, leucopteron Lesson, novaezelandiae Gray, 

 americana Gray, kuzira Gray, versabilis Cope, osphyia Cope; characters; 

 habits]. — Racovitza, 1903, Expedition Antarctique Belgique, Cetacea, 

 pp. 19, 52, figs. 1-11 (respiratory movements), pi. 2 (spouting, diving), 

 pi. 3 (leaping, swimming), pi. 4 (spouting, diving) [20° W.-80 W. but 

 most commonly 50° W.-60 W.; 135° E.-180 E. but most commonly 

 160° E — 180° E.; 60° S.-67° S. but most commonly 63° S.-64° S.].— 

 Liouville, 1913, Deuxieme Expedition Antarctique Frangaise, 1908- 

 1910, pp. 1, 18, fig. 9 (baleen), fig. 10 (fluke), fig. 11 (flipper); pi. 3. 

 figs. 1, 2 (animal) [characters; distribution]. — Carcelles, 1932, Physis, 

 11: 52, 61, 77, fig. 8 (processing cadaver) [S. Atlantic: Orkneys; 

 South Georgia; Falklands]. — Yafiez, 1948, Rev. Biol. Marina, Val- 

 paraiso, 1 : 121 [S. Pacific: Chile]. — Mann, 1957, Invest. Zool. Chilenas, 

 4: 97 [S. Pacific: Chile]. 



Megaptera longipinna [sic], Gray, 1846, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (1), 17: 83 

 [name lapsus for Balaena longimana Rudolphi]. 



Balcenoptera capensis A. Smith, 1834, South African Quarterly Journ., 

 2: 130 [S. Atlantic: South Africa (type locality: Cape of Good Hope); 

 work not seen]. 



"Rorqual du Cap", Cuvier, 1823, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 5, 1 : 

 370, 372, pi. 26, figs. 1-4 (skull) [S. Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of 

 Good Hope); osteology; comparisons; skeleton collected by M. 

 Delalande] . 



R\orqualus] antarcticus F. Cuvier, 1836, Cetaces, p. 347, pi. 20, figs. 2-4 

 (skull) [name based on the "rorqual du Cap" of G. Cuvier, 1823]. 



Balcenoptera antarctica, Temminck, 1841, Fauna Japonica, Les Mammi- 

 feres marins, Atlas, pi. 30 (animal); 1842, text [N. Pacific: southern 

 coast of Japan; characters; synonyms: ''rorqual du Cap" Cuvier 

 Balaena longimana Rudolphi]. 



Balcena sulcata antarctica, Schlegel, 1841, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete 

 der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, 1 (Cetaceen) : 43 [S. 

 Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of Good Hope); skeleton of original 

 "rorqual du Cap" Cuvier and Balaenoptera australis Lesson, in Paris 

 museum; Indian: Java; skull in Leiden Museum; N. Pacific: Japan; 

 U.S.S.R. (Kamchatka); synonyms: B. boops Fabricius (not Linnaeus), 

 B. longimana Rudolphi; review and reclassification of the antarctica of 

 Cuvier and authors, not the description of a new species as indicated 

 in some works]. 



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

 Erebus and Terror 1 (Mammalia): 17 [characters; classification; 

 history; synonyms: B. leucopteron Lesson, Balaena Allamack Pallas, 1811 

 (Zool. Russo-Asiatica) ; Pacific: "Japan and Antarctic seas"]. 



