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Eubalaena glacialis glacialis Miiller 



"Baleine d'Islande," Brisson, 1756, Regne animal, p. 350. 



B\alcena\ glacialis Miiller, 1776, Zool. Danicae prodr., p. 7. 



Balcena Glacialis, Borowski, 1781, Gemeinnuzzige Naturgeschichte des 

 Thierreichs, 2(1) : 18 [name based on "la baleine d'Islande" of Brisson, 

 and the "nordcaper" of Norwegian whalers]. 



B[alcena] Glacialis, Bonnaterre, 1789, Tabl. Encycl. Meth. Cetologie, p. 3 

 [name based on the "nordcaper" of Norwegian whalers]. 



B[alaena] g[lacialis] glacialis, Scheffer and Rice, 1963, U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Serv. Spec. Sci. Rep., 431: 9 [classification]. 



Eubalaena glacialis, Moore and Clark, 1963, Science, 141: 269 [N. 

 Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico (off New Pass, Sarasota, Florida)]. 



Eubalaena glacialis glacialis, Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe 

 and northern Asia, 9: 71 [N. Atlantic: Spitzbergen to Bahamas and 

 Madeiras]; 1962, Cetacea of the U.S.S.R., Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 82, 

 fig. 21 (animal), fig. 22 (skull) [N. Atlantic: distribution; concentra- 

 tions; movements; natural history]. 



Balcena islandica Gmelin, 1788, Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 1: 223 [name based on 

 "la baleine d'Islande" of Brisson]. 



B[alcena] M[ysticetus] islandica, Kerr, 1792, Animal kingdom, p. 357 

 [the "nordcaper" of Iceland]. 



Balana nordcaper Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. cetacees, pp. xxxvi, 103, 

 pis. 2, 3 (animal) [N. Atlantic (type locality: seas between Spitz- 

 bergen, Norway, Iceland; also in the Greenland seas;) name based on 

 authors' accounts]. 



Balcena Biscayensis Eschricht, 1860, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, (2), 12: 229 

 [N. Atlantic: Spain (type locality: San Sebastian, stranded Jan. 17, 

 1854); type skeleton originally in the museum of Pamplona, Spain, 

 now mounted in the Copenhagen Museum]. — Van Beneden and Ger- 

 vais, 1868-1880, Osteographie des cetaces, p. 90, pi. 7 (skeleton of type 

 and bones of others). 



Balcena Cisarctica Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 168 

 [N. Atlantic: U.S.A. (type locality: Delaware River, opposite Phila- 

 delphia, on the coast of New Jersey) ; type a nearly complete skeleton 

 of half-grown individual formerly in the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, no. 2817, now in the U.S. National Museum]. — True, 

 1904, Whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic, p. 79 [charac- 

 ters; type history]. 



Balcena Mysticetus var. angulata Gray, 1866, Cat. seals and whales Brit. 

 Mus., p. 86, fig. 5 (ear bones) [N. Atlantic (type locality: Orkneys?); 

 type, pair of ear bones in Brit. Mus.]. — Flower, 1885, List Cetacea 

 Brit. Mus., p. 2 [type, pair of tympanic bones, Brit. Mus., 338;; regarded 



