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Balcenoptera leucopteron Lesson, 1842, Nouv. Tabl. Reg. Anim., p. 202 

 [full original description : "La Hump-back des pecheurs. Hautes latitudes 

 C."]. 



Balcena Allamack Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus 

 and Terror, 1 (Mammalia) : 17 [in synonymy of Megaptera antarctica; 

 name attributed to Pallas (1811, Zoogeographia Rosso-Asia tica, 1: 

 288), who used only the Latin vernacular: "Balaena Allamak Canagice 

 dicta"; cf. Chamisso (1824, Nova Acta Acad. Ces. Leop. -Carol. Nat. 

 Cur., 12: 258, pi. 18, fig. 5), the "aliomach" or "aliama" of the 

 Aleuts]. 



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

 Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 17 [N. Atlantic (type locality: 

 believed to be the Bermuda Islands) ; name based on a figure of a 

 "Bermuda whale" of unknown origin and associated with a whale 

 described in 1665, Philos. Trans., 1:11, 132] ; 1866, Cat. seals and whales 

 Brit. Mus., p. 129 [characters]. — Malm, 1871, Kongl. Svenskaps Akad. 

 Handl., 9(2): 38, pi. 1, figs. Aa-h (limb bones, rib); pi. 4, fig. 28 

 (carpus) [N. Atlantic: French West Indies (St. Barthelemy); carpus]. 



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

 and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 17 [S. Atlantic: South Africa (type 

 locality: Cape of Good Hope); type a skeleton in the Paris museum; 

 name based on the "poeskop" of Lalande (ms.), Cuvier (1823, Oss 

 Foss., 5: pi. 26, figs. 1-4, 19) and Desmoulins (1822, Diet. Class. Nat. 

 Hist., 2: 164), wherein it is described under the vernacular "Bale- 

 inoptere Poeskop," which is cited erroneously by some modern authors 

 as a technical name.] 



Megaptera kuzira Gray, 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, p. 30 

 [name based on Balaenoptera antarctica of Temminck (1842, Fauna 

 Japonica, p. 21, pi. 30); N. Pacific: Japan (type locality); 1866, 

 Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 130 characters; history; Balaenoptera 

 Astrolabice Pucheran probably a synonym]. 



[Megaptera] kusira [sic] Trouessart, 1904, Cat. Mamm., Suppl., p. 785 

 [classification; name a misspelling of kuzira Gray]. 



Balcenoptera Astrolabce Pucheran, 1853, Voyage au Pole Sud . . . 

 l'Astrolabe et al Zelee, Zool., 3: 42, pi. 24, fig. 1 (animal) [type locality 

 in the southern seas; name based on the "rorqual noueux" of Hombron 

 and Jaquinot, 1841-1853, Voy. au Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 24, fig. 1]. 



Balcenoptera syncondylus A. Miiller, 1863, K. Phys.-Oekonom. Ges. 

 Konisberg, 4: 38, pis. 1-3 [N. Atlantic: Germany (type locality: 

 "Ostsee und die Kurische Nehrung")]. 



Megaptera novcB-zelandice Gray, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 

 207, fig. 4 (ear bones) [S.Pacific: New Zealand (type locality : Otago)]. — 

 Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 5 [type, right tympanic and 

 periotic bones, Brit. Mus., no. 1468a]. 



