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Balaenoptera maculata Lacepede 

 Balaenoptera maculata Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4: 

 473 [N. Pacific: Japan (type locality); name based on a Japanese 

 drawing of a rorqual]. 



Balaenoptera nigra Lacepede 



Balaenoptera nigra Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4: 473 

 [N. Pacific : Japan (type locality) ; name based on a Japanese drawing 

 of a rorqual]. — Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and 

 northern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 276 [listed in synonymy of Megaptera 

 nodosa Bonnaterre ( = M. novaeanglia Borowski)]. 



Balaenoptera punctulata Lacepede 



Balaenoptera punctulata Lacepede, 1818, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., 4: 473 

 [N. Pacific : Japan (type locality) ; name based on a Japanese drawing 

 of a rorqual]. — Tomilin, 1957, Mammals of eastern Europe and north- 

 ern Asia, 9(Cetacea): 276 [listed in synonymy of Megaptera nodosa 

 Bonnaterre (= M. novaeangliae Borowski)]. 



Delphinapterus senedetta Lacepede 



Delphinapterus senedetta Lacepede, 1804, Hist. Nat. Cetacees, pp. xli, 249 



[N. Atlantic: "paroit que le senedette a ete vu dans l'Ocean et dans la 



Mediterranee" ; name based on the "mular" or "senedette" of Rondelet 



(1558, Hist, poissons, 1: livr. 16, chap. 10)]. 



Remarks: The species is characterized by the absence of a dorsal fin, 



and by a large throat, long pointed muzzle, nine teeth in each upper jaw, 



and at least eight in each lower. The animal is probably mythical. 



Delphinorhynchus Blainville 



Delphinorhynchus Blainville, in Desmarest, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 

 Paris, 9: 151 [subgenus of Delphinus; included species: D. geqffrensis 

 Blainville (=Inia geqffrensis Blainville), D. coronatus Freminville, D. 

 shawensis Blainville {^Delphinus gangetica Lebeck \801=Susu gangetica 

 Lebeck), D. pernettensis Blainville (=Stenella pernettensis Blainville)]. — 

 Lesson, 1829, Manuel Mammal., p. 405 [genus]. — Hershkovitz, 1961, 

 Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 564 [incertae sedis; type species: D. coronatus 

 Freminville, by selection]. 



Rhamphocetus Gloger, 1841, Hand-Hilfsbuch Naturg., 1: xxxiv, 170 

 [type species: R. coronatus Freminville (= Delphinus coronatus Fremin- 

 ville), by monotypy]. 



Delphinus bertini Desmarest 



Delphinus bertini Desmarest, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 9: 163 [based 

 on the "dauphin de Bertin" of Duhamel (1782, Traite general des 

 peches, pt. 2, sect. 10, p. 41, fig. 3, pi. 10). 



