. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 12. BELUGA. 307 down belo-w the middle of the hinder edge.âGray, Zool. Ereh. & Terror, t. 29. fig. 3. Delphinopterus, Lac^. C6t. 243. Delphinapterus, F. Cuv. B. 8. N. lix. 517, 1829. â Beluga, Mqfin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1816; Gray, Spic. Zool. 2, 1828; Zool. Erebus8f Terror; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 77; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863,201; 1864,246; Lesson, Man.; Bell, Brit. Quad. 1837. Delphis, Wagler, N. S. AmpJi. 34, 1830. Delphinus (pars), Imrn.; BUger, Prod. 148,1811. Catodon (pars), Artedi, Gen. 78 ; Fleming, B. A. 29. Cetiis
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 12. BELUGA. 307 down belo-w the middle of the hinder edge.âGray, Zool. Ereh. & Terror, t. 29. fig. 3. Delphinopterus, Lac^. C6t. 243. Delphinapterus, F. Cuv. B. 8. N. lix. 517, 1829. â Beluga, Mqfin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1816; Gray, Spic. Zool. 2, 1828; Zool. Erebus8f Terror; Cat. Cetac. B. M. 77; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863,201; 1864,246; Lesson, Man.; Bell, Brit. Quad. 1837. Delphis, Wagler, N. S. AmpJi. 34, 1830. Delphinus (pars), Imrn.; BUger, Prod. 148,1811. Catodon (pars), Artedi, Gen. 78 ; Fleming, B. A. 29. Cetiis (pars), Brisson, £. A. i. 227,1762. Physeter (pars), Linn. S. iV. Cachalot (pars), Lacep. Cet. Phocsena (pars), F. Cuv. Cetae. There is a great similarity in the general form of the skulls of Phoccena, Beluga, and Monoeeros; bnt, independently of the size and teeth, they dififer in the form of the convexity in front of the blower; in Belvga the front of the blower is flattigh, in Monoeeros there is a broad, half-oblong convexity, and in Phoccena a squarish tuberosity. The genus DelpMnapterus was formed by Lacepede to contain this animal (which he before described as a Catodon) and the Delphinus Senedette, which is probably an imaginary figure of a Sperm Whale made from description, or perhaps of B. Orca with the dorsal fin left out. It has been applied by Peron, Cuvier, and others to a very different animal. Professor Owen observes, the prefrontal bones are large and coalesce with the vomer, and ascend into view at the back part of the nostrils, where they coalesce with the frontals. The nasal bones are wedged into an interspace between them and the frontals, at the summit of the nasal apertures.âCat. Osteal. Coll. Surg. 464. n. 2506. Fig. Skull of Beluga Catodon, Ouv. t. 22. f 5. 1. Beluga Catodon. The Northern Beluga. White; young black; the nose of the skull in length neai-ly one- X 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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