CETACEA. SI 



7. PHOC^ENA. 



Dorsal fin in the middle of the body; skull-nose depressed, 

 broad, the hinder part of the maxilla slightly shelving downwards 

 over the orbits ; the intermaxillaries and vomer forming part of 

 the palate ; teeth numerous, spathulate, compressed, extending 

 nearly the whole length of the jaw. 



Phocsena, Rondel. Pise. 474; Gray, Spic. Zool. 2, 1828; Zoo/. 



Ereb. fy Terror, 30. 



Phocaena, sp. Cuvier ; F. Cuvier ; Wagler, N. S. Amph. 34. 

 Delphinus, sp. Linn.; Illiger, Prod. 143, 1811. 



The foetus of Phoc&na has two bristles on each side of the 

 nose ; as the animal grows, these bristles fall out, and each leaves 

 a small pit on the side of the nose, which Klein (Hist. Piscium, 

 i. 24) mistook for the nostrils, as has been well observed by Prof. 

 Eschricht, 250. 



Mr. F. Knox gives many details of the anatomy of this species 

 in his ' Catalogue of Preparations relative to Whales/ 1838, p. 32. 



1. PHOC^ENA COMMUNIS, COMMON PORPOISE. 

 Black. 



Phocaena, Rondel. Pise. 473; Gesner, Aquat. 837, fig.; Aldrov. 



Pise. 719, fig- 



Phocaena Rondeletii, Willoughb. Pise. 31. t. Al. f. 2. 

 Tursio Marsouin, Bellon. Aquat. 16, fig. 

 Tursio Plinii, H. N. ix. 9. 

 Phocaena communis, Lesson, Man. 413 ; F. Cuv. Cetac. 172 j 



Gray, List Mam. B. M. 104; Spic. Zool. 2, 1828; Zool. E. 



$ T. 30; Jackson, Boston Journ. N. H. v. 167. 

 Delphinus Phocaena, Linn. Faun. Suec. 17 ; S. N. i. 108 ; Schreb, 



Saugth. t. 342; Bonnat. Get. 18. 1. 1. t. 10. f. 1 ; Desm. Mam. 



516; Fischer, Syn. 510; Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. t. 21. f. 1, 2, skull. 

 Marsouin commun, Cuvier, Menag. Mus. t. Reg. Anim. i. 279. 

 Porpesse, Shaw, Zool. ii. 504. t. 229, 230, 231. 

 ANAT. Knox, Cat. Prep. Whales, 1838, p. 37 ; Jackson, Boston 



Journ. N.H.v. 167; Sibson, Trans. Roy. Soc. 1848; Bonnat. 



Get. t. ; Lacep. Get. t. 20. f. 2, skel. 

 Inhab. North Sea. Mouth of rivers Thames and Severn. 



a. Thames. Presented by Mr. Leadbeater. 



b. Skull. From Dr. MantelFs Collection. 



c. d, e. Stuffed. Thames. Presented by Messrs. J. and C. Grove. 

 /. Skeleton. English Coast. 



Mr. Knox (Cat. Prep. Whales, p. 32, 1838) gives the particu- 

 lars of two skeletons of female specimens : 1 . Of a gravid 

 female taken in the Firth of Forth, 56 inches long and 34 inches 



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