1, 2. ADULT MALE AND FEMALE BOTTLE-NOSED WHALES.
Genus Ziphius
T h is genus may be distinguished from Mesoplpdon by the characters of the skull,
a full description of which has been given by Sir William Turner.1 The single
pair of teeth in the lower jaw are directed upwards and forwards and are at the
anterior extremity. Only one species is known to exist. The genus Ziphius was
established by Cuvier in 1825, from a skull found on the coast of Provence in
1804.
CUVIER’S WHALE
Z ip h iu s cavirostris, Cuvier.
Zip h iu s cavirostris, Cuvier, ‘ Ossemens Fossiles,’ vol. v. p. 352 (1825).
D elphinus desmarestii, Risso, ‘ Europe Méridionale,’ vol. iii. p. 24 (1826).
Delphinus p h ilip p ii, Cocco, ‘ Erichson’s Archiv,’ p. 204 (1846).
Hyperoddon doumetii, Gray, ‘ Brit. Mus. Cat. Cet.’ p. 60 (1850).
Hyperoodon g erva isii, Duvemoy, ‘ Ann. Sci. Nat.’ 2nd ser. vol. xv. p. 49 (1851).
Z ip h iu s indiens, Van Beneden, ‘ Mém. Acad. Roy. de Belg.’ vol. xvi. p. 23 (1864)..
Petrorhynchus capensis, Gray, ‘ Proc. Zool. Soc.’ p.‘ 524 (-1865);
Hyperoodon semi-junctus, Cope,: ‘ Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad.’ p. 280 (1865). '•
Epiodon desmarestii; Gray, ‘ Cajt. Seals and'Whales Brit. Mus.’ p._.34,1 •‘(•1866). ...
Z ip h iu s g erva isii, Fischer, ‘ Nouv. Arch. Mus.’ vol.-iii. p. 55 (1867). .
Delphinorkynchus australis, Burmeister, ‘ Zeitschrift f. d. G. Nat.’ vol. xxxvi. p. 262 (1868).
Ziphiorhynchus cryptodon, Burmeister, ‘ Revista farm, de Buenos Ayres,’ vol. iv. p. 363 (1868).
Epiodon australis, Burmeister, ‘ Ann. del Mus. Buenos Ayres,’ p. 312 (1868).
Epiodon h era u ltii, Gray, ‘ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.’ p. 449 (1872).
Z ip h iu s savi, Richiardi, ‘ Archiv. per la Zool.’ ser. 2. vol. iii. pi. vii. and viii. (1873).
Epiodon chathamiensis, Hector, ‘ Tr. New Zeal. Inst.’ vol. v. p. 164 (1873).
Epiodon g erva isii, Gray, ‘ Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.’ vol. xi. p. 19 (1873).
Z ip h iu s novas zelandue, Haast, ‘ Proc. Zool. Soc.’ p. 466 (1876).
Z ip h iu s chathamiensis, Flower, ‘ List o f Cetacea, Brit. Mus.’ . p. 10 (1885).
? Epiodon urganantus, Rafinesque, ‘ Précis de découvertes et' de’ somiologie,’ p. 13 (1814).
(Not described in detail nor preserved.)
1 Trans. Hoy.'Soc. Edinb. vol. xxvi. p. 759 (1872).J
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