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Baleine franche du (jolfe de Biscaye ESCHRICHT, Compt. rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, L. 

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Baleine de Biscaye ESCHRICHT, in Van Beneden & Gervais, Osteogr. des Ctac6s, 

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Balcena biscayensis GRAY, P. Z. S., 1864, 201 (an incidental reference to the "Right 

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 Norwich Nat. Soc., Ill (1879-1884), 1884, 228-230 (supposed occurrence on 

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Eubalcena biscayensis FLOWER, P. Z. S., 1864, 391. GULDBERG, Christiania Vidensk.- 

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Balcena (Hunterius) biscayensis GRAY, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), I, April, 1866, 

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Balcena cisarctica COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 168 (prelim, description), 

 273; Contr. Hist, Cetacea, 1866, 2 (same); in ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

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 Acad. roy. de Belgique (2), XXVI, 1868, 15 (referred to B. biscayensis). 

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