CETACEA. 109, 
3.2 DELPHINUS COMPRESSICAUDA. The COMPRESSED-TAILED 
—  . DOLPHIN. 
: Teeth 44, small, conical, hooked ; head coloured ; belly whitish; 
_ pectoral short ; upper jaw longest ; nose short; base of the tail 
- compressed on each side. 
_ Phoceena compressicauda, Lesson, Cetac. 199; F. Cuv. Cetac. 
186 (from Garnot MSS.). . 
_ Inhab. 4° S. lat., 26° E. long. of Paris. 
ft. 
Animal: length to pectoral...... | 
expanse of tail ........ Ld 
+t Beak short. Nose of skull thick, conical, convex above, 
half as long as the head. Tursio. 
; Tursio, Gray, Zool. E. & T. 37. 
_ Cetus, sp. Brisson. 
* Beak of skull rather thick, and rather swollen on the sides. 
Teeth 28-38. 
4, DeLeHinus Tursio. BoTTLE-NosE DOLPHIN. 
Black, whitish beneath; teeth 22, truncated when old; skull- 
_ nose 3 of entire length ; intermaxillaries very convex, forming a 
_ strong rib on each side above; intermaxilla and vomer formmg 
_ part of the palate. 
_ Delphinus Tursio, O. Fab. Faun. Gren. 49; Wright, Mag. N.H. 
_ u.609, 1838; Bonnat. Cetol. 21. t.il. f. 1; Schreb. Saugth. 
t. 344; Desm. Mam. 514; Fischer, Syn. 508; Zool. E. & T. 
' 37. t. 10, animal. 
_ Tursio truncatus, Bottle-nose Whale, Gray, List Mam. B. M. 
m - 104. 
_ D. Orca, Gerard, Dict. Sci. Nat. 75. 
_D. Nesarnak, Lacep. Cet. 307 ; Desm. Mam. 515, from O. Fab. 
_ Delphinus truncatus, Montague, Wern. Trans. ui. t. 5. f. 3, skull, 
cop. Bell, B. Quad. 472, fig. 
 Bottle-nose, Hunter, Phil. Trans. \xxxvii. t. 18, cop. Bonnat. 
_ Cetol. t. 11. f.1, and Bell, B. Quad. 469, 1787, fig. 
~ L’Oudre (Orca), Bellon, Aquat. f. 6. tab. at p. 18. 
~ Dauphin vulgaire, Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40, skull. 
_ Grand Dauphin, ou Souffleur, Cuvier, R. A. i. 278. 
© Anat. Cuvier, Oss. Foss. v. 277. t. 21. f. 3, 4. t. 23. f. 23, 29. 
_ f. 22. f.18; Camper, Cetac. t. 35-40; Mont. Wern. Trans. iii. 
mo, t. a 
- Var.? D. Tursio, Schlegel, Abh. t. 5. f..1, 2. t. 4. f. 9. 
_ Inhab. North Sea. 
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