CATALOG OF LIVING WHALES 183 



North Atlantic, p. 97, pi. 29-31, 34, 35 (skull, skeletal parts) [type 



history; characters]. 



Megaptera nodosa bellicosa, Elliot, 1904, Field Columbian Mus., Zool. Ser., 



4(1) : 41, pis. 9-11 (skull) [N. Atlantic: Caribbean Sea; Gulf of Mexico] . 



Megaptera indica Gervais, 1883, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 97: 1566 



[Indian (type locality: Persian Gulf); type, a skeleton, Museum 



National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris]. 



[?] Balcena gibbosa? Gray, in Dieffenbach, 1843, Travels in New Zealand, 



2: 183 [S. Pacific: New Zealand]. 

 [?] Balana atlanticus Hurdis, 1897, Natural history of the Bermudas, pp. 

 330, 339 [N. Atlantic: Bermudas; no description; name probably a 

 lapsus for Megaptera americana Gray]. 

 Type: None in existence, name based on the "baleine de la Nouvelle 

 Angleterre" of Brisson (1756, Regne animal, p. 351), which is based in 

 turn on the "Balaena gibbo unico" of Klein (1741, Historiae piscium 

 naturalis ... 2: 12, fig. 1) and the "Pflockfish" of Anderson (1750, 

 Histoire naturelle de Pislande . . . 2: 101). 

 Type locality : Coast of New England, United States. 

 Distribution: All seas from Arctic to Antarctic; in South American 

 waters (cf. Townsend, 1935, Zoologica, 19: chart D, and above synonymy), 

 West Indies, Venezuela, Brazil (Baia and Fernando de Noronha to Rio 

 Grande do Sul), Argentina (Rio de La Plata to Patagonia), Falklands, 

 Chile, including Juan Fernandez Island, Peru, Ecuador, including Gala- 

 pagos Islands, western Colombia, southern Panama; south of Cape Horn 

 to approximately 68° S. 



Remarks: The earliest available name for the humpback whale of the 

 southern hemisphere, should it prove to be distinct from the northern, is 

 Megaptera novaeangliae australis Lesson, 1828. 



Family BALAENIDAE 



Genus CAPEREA Gray 



Caper ea Gray, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 202 [subgenus of 

 Balaena Linnaeus]; 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 101 

 [genus]. — Van Beneden, 1874, Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, (2), 37: 

 832 [taxonomy; Neobalaena Gray a synonym]. — Davies and Guiler, 

 1957, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 129: 579 [characters; distribution; 

 history]. 



Neobalana Gray, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 154 [type species: 

 Balaena marginata Gray, by original designation]. — Kellogg, 1928, 

 Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 185, 191 [characters; history]. — Winge, 1942, 

 Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 306 [characters; relationship]. 



Type species: Balaena {Capered) antipodarum Gray 1864 (not Gray, 1843, 

 1846) (= Balaena marginata Gray), by monotypy. 



