CETOPTERA—CETUS. 175 
Cetoptera Rarinesque, 1815. Cete, Baleenidee. 
Analyse de la Nature, Addendum, 219, 1815. 
Catoptera Rafinesque, ibid., p. 61. 
New name for Balzenoptera Lacépóde, 1804 (* Catoptera R. Balenopteru Lac.’ ) 
Cetoptera: kTjros, whale; zrepóv, fin. 
Cetorhynchus Gervais, 1861. Cete, Platanistidze? 
Mém. Acad. Sci. Montpellier, V, pt. r, 122-124, pl. 1v, figs. 5-7, 1861; Zool. et 
Paléont. Gén., 1* sér., 1867-69, 152. 
Type: Mesoplodon christolii Gervais, from the Miocene of Poussan, near Mont- 
pellier, Département du Hérault, France. 
Extinct. Based on part of a lower jaw. 
Cetorhynchus: iriros, whale; pUy yos, snout. 
Cetotheriomorphus Branpt, 1873. Cete, Bal:enidze. 
Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, XX, 161-162, Taf. xxr, figs. 4-8, 1873. 
Type: Cetotheriomorphus dubius Brandt (locality unknown), possibly from south- 
ern Russia. Name provisionally proposed. 
Extinet. Based on ‘‘einen sehr kleinen Wirbel ohne Epiphysen und ohne 
Processus spinosus superior." 
Cetotheriomorphus: Cetotheriwn; uopqn, form. 
Cetotheriophanes (subgenus of Cetotherium) Branpt, 1878. Cete, Baleenide. 
Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, XX, 148-159, Taf. xx—xxn, xx, figs. 
1-3, 1873. 
Species, 4: Celotheriwm cuviert Brandt (type?), C. 
Brandt, and C. vandellii Brandt, from Europe. 
cortesti: Brandt, C. capellinii 
Extinct. 
Cetotheriophanes: Cetotherum; Pavos, manifest (from «vc, to appear). 
Cetotheriopsis Branpr, 1871. Cete, Baleenide. 
Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, XVI, 566, Nov. 13, 1871; Sitzungsber. 
Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, LVI, Iste Abth., 261, 1872; Mém. Acad. 
Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, X X, 165, 1873. 
Type (species not mentioned) from the Tertiary of Linz, Austria. 
‘‘Kine eigene, Cetotherium verwandte, also balinidenartige, folglich zahnlose 
Thiergattung, . . . die ich mit dem Namen Cetotheriopsis belegte" (1. c., 1871). 
** Mir will es vielmehr scheinen, dass meine Abtheilung der Cetotherinen eine von 
den Cetotherien durch Plesiocetopsis zu. Plesiocetus und von diesen zu den Ceto- 
* theriopsinen und Baleenopterinen hinneigende Gruppe sei" (1. c., 1873). 
Extinct. Based on fragments of a skull. 
Cetotheriopsis: Cetotheriwm; Owts, aspect. 
Cetotherium Branpr, 1843. Cete, Baleenidee. 
L'Institut, Paris, XI, 1* sect., No. 499, pp. 20, 241, 270, July, 1843; Bull. CI. 
Phys.-Math. Acad. Sci., St.-Pétersbourg, I, 145-148, 1843; Hay, Cat. Foss. 
Vert. N. Am.; Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 598, 1902. (type fixed). 
Species: Cetotherium rathkii Brandt (type), and C. priscus (Eichwald), from 
the Pliocene of southern Russia. 
Extinct. Based on a skull with the lower jaw, a number of vertebre, fragments 
of ribs and other bones. 
Cetotherium: viros, whale; §ypiorv, wild beast. 
Cetus Brisson, 1762. ; Cete, Delphinide. 
Regnum Animale in Classes IX distrib., 2d ed., 218, 225-231, 1762; WAGLER, 
Nat. Syst. Amphibien, 33-34, 1830. 
Species, 7: Cetus, Cetus albicans, C. nove anglix, C. ininor, C. dentibus acutis, C. den- 
tibus faleiformibus, C. dentibus in planum desinentibus. 
Cetus: «Tiros, whale. 
