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Eubalaena glacialis japonica Lacepede 

 Balcena japonica Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4: 469, 



473. — Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H. M.S. Erebus and Terror, 



1 (Mammalia): 15 [characters ex the Japanese Balaena australis (sic= 



antarctica) of Temminck; japonica Lacepede regarded as the same]. — 



Van Beneden, 1868, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Lettres Beaux Arts Belgique, 



(2), 25: 16 [N. Pacific: 40° N.-60 N. from east to west].— Her shkovitz, 



1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 561 [taxonomic history]. 

 Eubalaena glacialis Omura, 1958, Sci. Rep. Whales Res. Inst. Tokyo, 13: 



1 (name, p. 50), figs. 2, 4-8, 13 (external characters; lice), figs. 15, 16 



(baleen), fig. 17 (penis), figs. 18, 21 (skull, cranial bones), figs. 22-24, 



26 (vertebrae), fig. 27 (sternum, hyoid bones); pi. 1 (animal); pis. 2-4 



(skull); pis. 5, 6 (vertebrae); pis. 7, 8, fig. 1 (ribs); pi. 8, fig. 2 (flipper 



skeleton) [N. Pacific: Japan; seasonal migrations; external characters; 



osteology; comparisons; taxonomic history; regarded as conspecific 



with North Atlantic right whale]. 

 Eubalaena glacialis japonica, Imaizumi, 1958, Nat. Sci. and Mus. Tokyo, 



25(11-12): 13 [N. Pacific: Japan; skeleton in Natural Sciences 



Museum] . 

 Balcena lunulata Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4: 473 



[name based on a Japanese drawing of a right whale]. 

 Balaena Kuliomoch Chamisso, 1825, Nova Acta Acad. Gesarae Leopoldino- 



Garoliae, Nat. Cur., 12: 254, pi. 17, fig. 1 (wooden carving of animal) 



[N. Pacific (type locality: Bering Sea); name based on wooden carving 



by Aleuts].— Gray, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 202 [listed]. 

 Balcena cullamach [sic], Cope, 1868, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



20: 225 [misspelling or emendation of kuliomach Chamisso; characters]; 



1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21 : 38 [N. Pacific: right whale 



of the northwest coast; characters]. 

 Balcena culammak [sic], Gray, 1870, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), 6: 202 



[misspelling of cullamach Cope and attributed to Pallas (1811, Zoogeogr. 



Russo-Asiatica, 1: 288), who used only the vernacular]. 

 B\alcend\ cullamacha [sic], Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 133 [listed as 



synonym of B. australis Desmoulins]. 

 Balcena antarctica, Temminck (not Lesson, 1828), 1840 or 1841, Fauna 



japonica, p. 18, pis. 28, 29 (animal) [N. Pacific: Japan; characters; 



local names: "sebi kuzira," "ko-kuzira"]. 

 Balcenoptera [sic] antarctica, Temminck (not Temminck, op. cit., p. 21, 



pi. 30), 1841, Fauna japonica, pi. 28, caption [a lapsus for Balaena]. 

 Balcena mysticetus antarcticus, Schlegel (part, not Lesson, 1828), 1841, 



Abh. Zool. Vergleich. Anat., l(Cetaceen): 37 [N. Pacific: Japan; 



characters; taxonomy]. 

 Balcena Sieboldii Gray, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), 14: 349 [N. 



Pacific : Japan (type locality) ; new name for Balaena japonica Gray, 



