. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 128 BALiENOPTEEIDJE. and the temporal bone is broader and more triangular—which made me believe it to be a distinct species before I obtained the cervical vertebrae. M. Desmoiilins, in describing this species, pointed out the most important character of the genus, viz. the length of the pectoral. The following species are probably Megapterinoe, but they are too imperfectly known to determine to what genus they belong. 1. Megaptera NoTse-Zelandise. The tympanic bones very like those of M. longimana, but shorter and
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 128 BALiENOPTEEIDJE. and the temporal bone is broader and more triangular—which made me believe it to be a distinct species before I obtained the cervical vertebrae. M. Desmoiilins, in describing this species, pointed out the most important character of the genus, viz. the length of the pectoral. The following species are probably Megapterinoe, but they are too imperfectly known to determine to what genus they belong. 1. Megaptera NoTse-Zelandise. The tympanic bones very like those of M. longimana, but shorter and more swollen, and the periotic bone broad and expanded; the rest of the skeleton, unfortunately, is unknown. Megaptera Novse-Zelandiae, Oray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, 208; Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. 1864, xiv. 351. Inhab. New Zealand. Fig. Ear-bones of Megaptera Nmee-Zelandiee. The specimens in the British Museum of the bones of the ear, with tympanic bones attached, were sent from New Zealand by Mr. Stuart, and are very like these bones in the Megaptera longimana from Greenland in the Museum collection, but differ in the tympanic bone being rather shorter and more swollen. The latter is nearly regu- larly oblong, and very convex at the upper part, with a somewhat hemispherical outline, and rather wider Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. London : Printed by order of the Trustees
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