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not Lacepede, "which is differently colored from the one figured by 



Temminck"]. 

 Eubalcena Sieboldii, Gray, 1868, Synopsis whales and dolphins Brit. Mus., 



p. 1 [synonymy]. 

 Eubalcena glacialis sieboldii, Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe 



and northern Asia, 9: 75 [N. Pacific: Bering and Okhotsk Seas to 



East China Sea (25° N.) ; synonyms: "cullamach Pallas" [not a Linnaean 



name], kuliomach Chamisso, japonica Gray, aleoutiensis Van Beneden]; 



1962, Cetacea of the U.S.S.R., Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 86 [N. Pacific: 



U.S.A. (Alaska); Okhotsk, Japan, Yellow and East China Seas; 



Taiwan; Bonin; movements; natural history]. 

 Balcena aleoutiensis Van Beneden, 1865, Bull. Acad. Roy. Bruxelles, 20: 



854 [N. Pacific (type locality: 40° N.-60 N.); ms. name proposed by 



Meyer for the "nordwest" or "nord-ouest" whale of the North Pacific], 

 B[al<ena] alutiensis [sic], Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 133 [listed as 



synonym of B. australis Desmoulins]. 

 Balcena australis, Flower (part, not Desmoulins), 1885, List Cetaceans 



Brit. Mus., p. 3 [N. Pacific: U.S.A. (Sandwich Islands= Hawaii)]. 



Type : Description based on a colored figure by a Japanese artist. 

 Type locality: Japan. 



Distribution: North Pacific from Bering and Okhotsk Seas to Baja 

 California, Hawaii, Japan, Yellow and East China Seas, Taiwan, Bonin. 



Genus BALAENA Linnaeus 



Balcena Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1: 75 [included species: 

 mysticetus, physalus (= Balaenoptera physalus), boops (= Balaenoptera 

 physalus), musculus (—Balaenoptera musculus)]. 



Balaena Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 33 et seq. [history; relation- 

 ships]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelat. Mamm. Gen., 3: 238, 278 [characters; 

 classification]. — Scheffer and Rice, 1963, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv. 

 Spec. Sci. Rep., 431 [Eubalaena Gray a synonym]. 



Balena Scopoli, 1777, Introductio ad historium naturalem, p. 486 

 [emendation of Balcena Linnaeus]. 



Balcena Lesson, 1842, Nouv. Tabl. Reg. Anim., p. 202 [emendation of 

 Balcena Linnaeus]. 



Leiobalana Eschricht, 1849, K. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter Nat. 

 Mat., Afd., (5), 1: 108 [type, the "glathvaler" or "rithvaler" of the 

 northern seas (= Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus)]. 



Type Species : Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus by virtual tautonomy. 



Distribution : Arctic Ocean southward to Bering, Okhotsk, and Barents 

 Seas and, formerly, the Sea of Japan in the North Pacific; and to the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence in the North Atlantic; also reported from off the 

 coast of Massachusetts. 



