. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 4. TKTllORTIYNCUUS. 347 " La machoiro inforieiire est assez haute en arritTC, fortcment bombee sur le cote, etroite en avant. La peau des gcncives est noire, toute la surface est couvertc de petites losangcs en saillie, (jui la rendent raboteiise. Les dents sont en forme de iiiseaux; ehaque dent a six centimetres et dcmi de longueur sur deux centimetres et demi de largeur ou d'cpaisseur, mais toute la dent est, pour ainsi dire, ;â Vmi Beneden, I. c. Fis-. 'â 'fir Skull and tooth of Petrorhynchus Indicus, from Van Ijeneden
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum. 4. TKTllORTIYNCUUS. 347 " La machoiro inforieiire est assez haute en arritTC, fortcment bombee sur le cote, etroite en avant. La peau des gcncives est noire, toute la surface est couvertc de petites losangcs en saillie, (jui la rendent raboteiise. Les dents sont en forme de iiiseaux; ehaque dent a six centimetres et dcmi de longueur sur deux centimetres et demi de largeur ou d'cpaisseur, mais toute la dent est, pour ainsi dire, ;â Vmi Beneden, I. c. Fis-. 'â 'fir Skull and tooth of Petrorhynchus Indicus, from Van Ijeneden. Misled by M. Yan Benedcn's description and figure, whicli are here reproduced, in mj' paper in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Societ)-,' 18(;5, p. 522, I Avas induced to form ZijJtius Indicus into a genus distinct from the Mediterranean and the Cape Whales. Since that paper Mas prepared M. Van Beneden has visited England and seen the Cape skuU, and considers it the same as or very nearly allied to the one he described, and on his return he most kindly sent to the British Museum and the College of Surgeons a cast of the beak and the front end of the lower jaw of his specimen ; and there can be no doubt that they are very ne;irly allied, if not specimens of dif- ferent ages of the same species. For the present it is as -well to keep them separate, pointing out the distinction between them. In Zijihiia Indicus the very largely developed vomer gradually tapers off beliiiid towards the blowers ; in the F. i'tqx'nsis it continues nearly of the same thickness to the hinder end, and is there suddenly and i)er- pendicularly truncated. It is only necessary to compare the two tigui'cs to explain how I came to consider them distinct 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. Departm
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