CATALOGUE 



C E T A G E A. 



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. i. 27 ; Link, Eeytr. 1795 ; 



Desm. N. D. H. N. xxiv. 35, 1804 ; Fischer, Syn. 1828 ; Eich- 



wald, Zool. Spec. iii. 337 ; Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825. 

 Ceti, Wagler, Amph. 1830. 

 Les Cetaces, Cuvier, Tab. Elem. 1798 ; Cuvier, R. A. i. 271, 1817, 



ed. 2. i. 281 ; F. Cuvier, 1829. 



Cetacean, Brisson, R. A . 21 7, 1 762; Gray, Med. Rep. xv. 309, 1821 . 

 M. a nageoires, pars, Desm. N. D. H. N. xxiv. 32, 1804. 

 Natantia, Illiger, Prod. 139, 1811. 



M. pinnata and pinnipedia, pars, Storr. Prod. Mam. 1780. 

 Bipedes, Latr. Fam. Nat. 64, 1825. 

 Sirenia and Cete, Selys Long champs, 1842. 

 Hydromastologie ou Cetologie, 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 Phocaena 

 (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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