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Megaptera nodosa novae-zealandiae, Ivashin, 1958, Inf. Bull. Soviet Antarctic 

 Exped. No. 3, Arctic and Antarctic Sci. Res. Inst. Min. Marine Fleet, 

 U.S.S.R., Leningrad, p. 77 [available name and classification of Austra- 

 lian-New Zealand form; characters; migration]. 



M[egaptera] gigas Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 179 

 ["North Atlantic species"; characters; comparisons; name erroneously 

 attributed to Rudolphi or Gray without bibliographic references]. 



Megaptera osphyia Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 180 

 [N.Atlantic: U.S.A. (type locality: 40 miles off Petit Menan Lighthouse, 

 Maine); type, a skeleton in Niagara Falls Museum, Canada]. 



[Megaptera longimana] moorei, Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. 

 Mus., p. 122 [N. Atlantic: England (type locality: Estuary of Dee 

 River); type, a skeleton, Free Museum, Liverpool]. 



Megaptera? Burmeisteri Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., 

 p. 129 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (coast of Buenos Aires); name based on 

 Burmeister's ms. notes on bones in the Buenos Aires Museum]. 



Megaptera Burmeisteri, Burmeister, 1866, Act. Soc. Paleo. Buenos Aires, 

 Anal. Mus. Publico, Buenos Aires, 1(1866): x [S. Atlantic: Argentina 

 (Island near mouth of Parana; Rio de La Plata, Buenos Aires)]. 



Megaptera Burmeisteri, Burmeister, 1867, Anal. Mus. Publico, Buenos 

 Aires, 1: 311 [S. Atlantic: Argentina (type locality: island between 

 Parana Guazu and Parana de las Palmas) ; type, several vertebrae and 

 a tympanic bone in the Buenos Aires Museum]. 



Megaptera braziliensis Cope, 1867, Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Sci., p. 32 

 [S. Atlantic: Brazil (type locality: Bahia); type, a skeleton of young 

 individual originally preserved in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia but now possibly in the U.S. National Museum]. 



Megaptera brasiliensis [sic], True, 1904, Whalebone whales of the western 

 North Atlantic, p. 102 [characters; comparisons; name regarded as a 

 misidentification of Balaenoptera brasiliensis Gray =B. physalus Linnaeus, 

 and not as of a new species], 



Kyphobalcena Keporkak Van Beneden, 1868, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belgique, 

 Bruxelles, 25: 109 (name), 113 (description), 116, 118 (scapula) [N. 

 Atlantic: Greenland (type locality: Davis Strait); type skeleton in 

 Louvain Museum; cf. Van Beneden (1864, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, 

 (2), 18: 389) for full description]. 



Megaptera versabilis Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 

 15, figs. 5, 6 (sketch of animal) [N. Pacific: type locality not specified; 

 description based on the "North Pacific humpback" of Scammon]. 



Megaptera bellicosa Cope, 1871, Proc. American Phil. Soc, 12: 103, figs. 

 21-28 (skull, vertebrae) [N. Atlantic: French West Indies (type locality: 

 St. Barthelemy Island); type skeleton originally in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, now in the U.S. National Museum; 

 presented by Dr. A. Goes]. — True, 1904, Whalebone whales of western 



