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as a synonym of B. mysticetus]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 133 

 [listed as a synonym of B. australis] . 



Hunterius svedenborgii Lilljeborg, 1867, Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Upsala, (3), 

 6(2): 35, pis. 9-11 [N. Atlantic: Sweden (type locality: Wanga, west 

 Gotland) ; type, a subfossil skeleton in the Upsala University Museum]. 



Hunterius Swedenborgii [sic], Gray, 1871, Suppl. Cat. seals and whales 

 Brit. Mus., p. 44 [characters]. 



Balcena mediterranea Gray, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 198 [N. 

 Atlantic (type locality: supposedly the He de Sainte Marguerite, Var, 

 France, Mediterranean Sea, which is the locale of the "rorqual," 

 Balccnoptera mediterraneensis Lesson=i?. physalus Linnaeus) ; named based 

 on the fused cervical vertebrae figured by Lacepede (1804, Hist. 

 Nat. Cetacees, pi. 7, fig. 1)]; 1871, Suppl. Cat. seals and whales Brit. 

 Mus., p. 38 [listed]. 



Macleayius britannicus Gray, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 200 

 [N. Atlantic: England (type locality: Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire); type, 

 four cervical vertebrae, British Museum, no. 338/— 53.1.5.2]. 



Balcena eubalcena Gray, 1871, Suppl. Cat. seals and whales Brit. Mus., p. 

 44 [name in synonymy of Hunterius biscayensis; attributed to Flower 

 (1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 391), who used the combination 

 Eubalccna australis where cited]. 



Balcena Van Benediana Capellini, 1873, Mem. Accad. Sci. Inst. Bologna 

 (3), 3: 12, ftn. (separate) [name based on fused cervical vertebrae 

 figured by Lacepede (1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pi. 7, fig. 1), and errone- 

 ously believed to be of the He de Sainte Marguerite whale represented 

 by a skeleton in the Paris museum]. 



Balcena Van Benedeniana [sic], Fischer, 1881, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 

 (4), 35 : 46 [history; name an emendation of benediana Capellini]. 



Balcena tarentina Capellini, 1877, Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bologna (3), 7: 

 11 (separate), pi. 1 (animal), pi. 2 (ear bones), pi. 3 (cervical vertebrae, 

 nasals, scapula, sternum, baleen) [N. Atlantic: Italy (type locality: 

 Gulf of Taranto, Mediterranean Sea)]. 



Balcena euskariensis Real, 1890, La ballena euskara, Memoria . . . San 

 Sebastian, p. 3 [work not seen]. 



Type: None in existence, name based on the North Atlantic "sild-qval," 

 "lille-hval," or "Nord-Kaper" of Norwegian whalers and the primary 

 bibliographic reference to Egede (1742, Des alten Gronlandes Naturell- 

 historie, Kopenhagen, Chapter 6). 



Type locality: North Cape, Norway; hence the name "nordcaper." 



Distribution: North Atlantic from Davis Straits, Newfoundland, and 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Bermuda Islands, South Carolina, probably 

 the Bahamas, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, and, formerly, from Spitzbergen 

 to the Madeiras and the Mediterranean Sea. 



