. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 38 PHOCID^. SubfamUy 4. CTSTOPHORINA. Muzzle of the males with an injlatile appendage. Outtmg-teeth |-; grinders with a large swollen root, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown. Muffie hairy. Stemmatopina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. Cystopliorina, Cfray, Zool. Erehm 8r Terror, 3; Cat. Seals B. M. 33. Cystophora, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl; Skand. Fauna: Wiegm. Arch. vii. 323. Mirounga, Oray, Griffith's A. K. v. 179, 1827. Hioca, § 2, F. Ouvier, Mem. Mm. xi. 196. 13. MORUNGA. Nose of the male with an elo
. Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum . Seals (Animals); Whales. 38 PHOCID^. SubfamUy 4. CTSTOPHORINA. Muzzle of the males with an injlatile appendage. Outtmg-teeth |-; grinders with a large swollen root, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown. Muffie hairy. Stemmatopina, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. Cystopliorina, Cfray, Zool. Erehm 8r Terror, 3; Cat. Seals B. M. 33. Cystophora, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl; Skand. Fauna: Wiegm. Arch. vii. 323. Mirounga, Oray, Griffith's A. K. v. 179, 1827. Hioca, § 2, F. Ouvier, Mem. Mm. xi. 196. 13. MORUNGA. Nose of the male with an elongated tubular proboscis; muzzle of the skuU broad, truncated in front; forehead convex; hinder palatine bone short, transverse. Hair flat, truncated, adpressed; whiskers round, rather waved, thick. Claws, front obsolete, hinder distinct. Fig. Morunga elephantina. SkulL The head broad, short, truncated in front, with a tuft of bristles â over each eye, and one on each side of the middle of the muzzle; the upper lip longer than the lower ; the forehead convex; the nostrUs of the male "are wrinkled, and can be blown up into a crest" (Forster), " with an elongate tubular proboscis" {Peron); of the female simple, rounded, with a hairy mufie between and around the edge of the nostrils. Cutting-teeth -I, far apart, conical, the two middle upper smaller, the rest nearly equal; the grinders with large, swollen, subcylin- drical roots, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown; the hinder palatine bones short, 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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