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Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus 



Balcena Mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1 : 75. 



Balaena mysticetus, Van Beneden, 1887, Mem. Cour. Autr. Mem. Acad. 

 Roy. Belgique, 40: 1 (separate) [characters; history; habits; whaling; 

 parasites]. — Fraser and Purves, 1960, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 

 Zool., 7: 35 et seq. [auditory system; classification]. — Tomilin, 1962, 

 Cetacea of the U.S.S.R., Fauna U.S.S.R., 79: 79 [U.S.S.R. (Barents 

 to East Siberian, Chukshi and Bering Seas); Spitzbergen; Greenland; 

 Ireland; Jan Meyen; Denmark; concentrations; movements; migra- 

 tions; natural history; economics]. — Jonsgard, 1964, Norsk Hvalf.- 

 Tid., 53: 311 [Arctic: Barents Sea (west of Novaya Zemlya, 73°58' N., 

 49°20' E.); Spitzbergen (northwest, 79°48' N., 10°07' E.)]. 



Balcena Mysticetus groenlandica Kerr, 1792, Animal kingdom, p. 356 

 [N. Atlantic: Greenland (type locality)]. 



Balcena borealis Lesson, 1828, Complement des oeuvres de Buffon, 

 Cetacees, pp. 394, 442 (name) [new name for Balaena mysticetus Lin- 

 naeus] . 



Balaena mysticetus borealis, Knox, 1838, Catalogue of anatomical prepara- 

 tions illustrative of the whale, p. 21 [anatomical parts; exhibited in 

 London] . 



Balcena mysticetus arctica Schlegel, 1841, Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete 

 der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, Leiden, 1 : 36 [Arctic 

 (type locality: ice cap south to 75° N.); type skull in the Leiden 

 Museum, another in the Harlem Museum]. 



Balcena mysticetus Roysii Dall, 1874, in Scammon, Marine mammals, p. 

 305 [N. Pacific: U.S.S.R. (type locality: Okhotsk Sea); cf. Scammon, 

 1869, Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila., p. 33, for whaling data]. 



Balcena mysticetus pitlekajensis Malm, 1883, Bihang. K. Svenska Vet. Akad. 

 Handl., (8), 4: 37 [N. Pacific: U.S.S.R. (type locality: Pitlek, north- 

 eastern Siberia)]. 



[Balcena mysticetus] pittekajensis [sic], Trouessart, 1904, Cat. Mamm., Suppl., 

 p. 787 [classification]. 



Type: None in existence; name based on the Greenland right whale of 

 whalers and authors. 

 Type locality: Greenland seas. 

 Distribution : The same as for the genus. 



Incertae Sedis 



Amphiptera pacifica Giglioli 

 Amphiptera pacifica Giglioli, 1870, Note intorno alia distribuzione della 

 Fauna vertebrata nelF oceano prese un viaggio intorno al Globo, R. 

 Magenta, 1865-68, p. 76 [S. Pacific (type locality: 28°34 / S., 88°10' 



