CATALOGUE 
OF 
Ck TA 6 RA. 
Order III. CETE. 
Teeth all similar, conical; sometimes not developed. 
Palate often furnished with transverse plates of baleen or 
whalebone. 
Body fish-shaped, nearly bald. 
Limbs short, fin-shaped. 
Hinder pair forming a horizontal tail. 
Mammalia, Cete, Linn. S. Nat. ed. 12.1.27; Link, Beytr. 1795; 
Desm. N. D. H. N. xxiv. 35, 1804; Fischer, Syn. 1828; Eich- 
wald, Zool. Spec.rii. 337; Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825. 
Ceti, Wagler, Amph. 1830. 
Les Cétacés, Cuvier, Tab. Elem. 1798; Cuvier, R. A. i. 271, 1817, 
ed. 2.1. 281; F. Cuvier, 1829. 
Cetacee, Brisson: R.A.217,1762; Gray, Med. Rep. xv. 309, 1821. 
M. a nageoires, pars, Desm. N. D. H. N. xxiv. 32, 1804. 
Natantia, I/liger, Prod. 139, 1811. 
M. pinnata and pinnipedia, pars, Storr. Prod. Mam. 1780. 
| Bipedes, Latr. Fam. Nat. 64, 1825. 
_ Sirenia and Cete, Selys Longchamps, 1842. 
Hydromastologie ou Cétologie, Lesson, Nov. Tab. Reg. Anim. 
197, 1842. 
Fischsucke (Schucher), Oken, Lehrb. Naturg. 661, 1815. 
Cetacea and Amphibia, pars, Rafin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815. 
Belon and Rondelet appear to have known the Dolphin (Del- 
phinus Delphis), the ‘Ondre’ (D. Tursio), and the Phocena 
(P. vulgaris) ; but their account of the Spermaceti Whale is very 
indistinct. 
_ Clusius, in 1605, first described and figured the Sperm Whale 
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