. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 196 CATODONTID^. n. Head depressed, Blotver on hack of the forehead. Dorsal Jin com- pressed, falcate. 2. Physeter, Head large, rounded in front. Skull elongate. 3. KoGiA. Head moderate, witli a truncate snout in front. Skull short, broad. I. Head cotnpressed, truncated in front, with the 7iostrilin the upper edge of the truncatioti. Skull elongate. Dorsal hump rounded. 1. CATODON. Spenjiacetl Whales. Head rather compressed in front and truncated, with the blowers close together on
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Seals (Animals); Whales. 196 CATODONTID^. n. Head depressed, Blotver on hack of the forehead. Dorsal Jin com- pressed, falcate. 2. Physeter, Head large, rounded in front. Skull elongate. 3. KoGiA. Head moderate, witli a truncate snout in front. Skull short, broad. I. Head cotnpressed, truncated in front, with the 7iostrilin the upper edge of the truncatioti. Skull elongate. Dorsal hump rounded. 1. CATODON. Spenjiacetl Whales. Head rather compressed in front and truncated, with the blowers close together on the front of the upper edge, separated from the head by an indentation. Nose of skull elongate, broad, depressed. Lower jaw shorter than the upper one, very narrow, eylindi'ical in front, and the rami united by a symphysis for nearly half its length. Back with a roundish tubercle in front, over the eyes, called the " bunch," and a rounded ridge of fat behind, highest in front over the genital organs, called the " hump," and continiied in a ridge to the tail. No true dorsal fin. Pectoral broad, truncated. Teeth conical, often worn down. Males larger than the females. The atlas is distinct; the other cervical vertebrae are soldered together. Catodon, Artedi, Syst.; Lacep. Cet.; Rajin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815 ; Oken, Lehrh. Nat. 678; Gray, Zool. E. ^- T.; Cat. Cetac. ^; P. Z. S. 1863; 1864, 231. Physeter (Catodontes), Fischer, Sgn. Mamm. 517. Physeter, sp., Linn.; Illiger, Prod. 143,1811; Lesson, N. R^g. Anim. 201. Physeter, Wagler, N. S. Amph. 33; J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 38; Rousseau, Mag. Zool. 1856, 257. Physalus, Lacep. Cet. 219. t. 9, from Anderson, Cachalot, t. 4. Balsenoptera (Physalus), Fischer, Sgn. Mamm. 519. ? Notaphrum, RaJin. Anal. Nat. 60, 1815 (no char, nor type). Cetus (pars), Oken, Lehi-h. Naturg. 674. Fig. Catodon niacrocephalus. Curiir, Oss. Foss. t. 24. f. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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