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Hunterus Gray, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), 14: 349 [type species: 



Hunterus temminckii Gray (= Balaena glacialis australis Desmoulins) by 



monotypy]. 

 Macleayius Gray, 1865, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 588 (figure and 



name), 589 (text) [type species: Macleayius australiensis Gray (=Euba- 



laena glacialis australis Desmoulins), by original designation]. 

 Hunterius Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., pp. 78, 98 



[emendation of Hunterus Gray, 1864]. 

 Macleayanus Marschall, 1873, Nomen Zool. Mamm., p. 8 [emendation of 



Macleayius Gray]. 

 Halibalaena Gray, 1873, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873: 140 [type species: 



Balaena britannica Gray (= Balaena glacialis Miiller) by monotypy]. 



Type species: Eubalaena australis (= Balaena australis Desmoulins), by 

 monotypy. 



Distribution : In North Atlantic {Eubalaena glacialis glacialis Miiller) : 

 from Davis Strait to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico on the west, and, 

 formerly, from Spitzbergen and Iceland to the Mediterranean on the east; 

 in North Pacific (E.g. japonica Lacepede, 1818): from Gulf of Alaska, 

 Bering Sea, and Sea of Okhotsk to 20° N. ; in South Atlantic, Pacific, and 

 Indian Oceans (E.g. australis Desmoulins): from 13°-20° S. to 65° S. 



Eubalaena glacialis australis Desmoulins 



"Baleine du cap," Cuvier, 1823, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, 

 5: 373-374, pi. 25, figs. 1-4 (skull, young), figs. 5-8 (skull, adult); 

 pi. 27, figs. 10-16 (ear bones) [S. Atlantic: South Africa (Cape of 

 Good Hope); osteology; comparisons]. 



Balaena australis Desmoulins, 1822, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., 2: 161, pi. 

 (animal). — Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buff on, 1 

 (Cetaces): 391, 442 (table methodique) [characters (p. 391 under 

 Balaena antarctica Lesson)]. — Hamilton, 1837, Jardine's Naturalist's 

 Library, Mammalia, 6 (Whales): 122 [characters; habits]. — Bennett, 

 1840, Narrative of a whaling voyage around the globe, 2: 229 [charac- 

 ters; whaling in southern seas]. — Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of 

 H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 15, 48, pi. 1, fig. 3 (baleen) 

 [S. Atlantic: South Africa (False Bay, Cape of Good Hope) ; characters; 

 baleen]; 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, p. 15 [S. Atlantic: 

 South Africa (False Bay; Cape of Good Hope); baleen]. — Van Beneden 

 and Gervais, 1880, Osteographie des cetaces, p. 35, pis. 1, 2 (skeleton 

 of type in Paris Museum) [characters; distribution; synonymy]. — 

 Burmeister, 1881, Erlaut. Fauna Argentina, p. 35 [S. Adantic: Argen- 

 tina]. — Flower, 1885, List Cetacea Brit. Mus., p. 2 [part; S. Adantic: 

 South Africa (Cape of Good Hope); S. Pacific: New Zealand. — Bed- 

 dard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 133 [characters; habits; whaling; 

 synonyms: B. biscayensis Gray, B. sieboldi Gray, B. japonica Gray, 



