The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae / An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum...
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Bulletin 73
BY FREDERICK W. TRUE Head Curator, Department of Biology, U. S. National Museum
WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1910
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Issued September 28, 1910.
The scientific publications of the United States National Museum consist of two series, the Proceedings and the Bulletins .
The Proceedings , the first volume of which was issued in 1878, are intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original, and usually brief, papers based on the collections of the National Museum, presenting newly-acquired facts in zoology, geology, and anthropology, including descriptions of new forms of animals, and revisions of limited groups. One or two volumes are issued annually and distributed to libraries and scientific organizations. A limited number of copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, is distributed to specialists and others interested in the different subjects as soon as printed. The date of publication is printed on each paper, and these dates are also recorded in the tables of contents of the volume.
The Bulletins , the first of which was issued in 1875, consist of a series of separate publications comprising chiefly monographs of large zoological groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several volumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, and catalogues of type-specimens, special collections, etc. The majority of the volumes are octavos, but a quarto size has been adopted in a few instances in which large plates were regarded as indispensable.
Since 1902 a series of octavo volumes containing papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum, and known as the Contributions from the National Herbarium , has been published as bulletins.
The present work forms No. 73 of the Bulletin series.
Richard Rathbun, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, In charge of the United States National Museum.
Frederick W. True
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ADVERTISEMENT.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
DESCRIPTIONS OF SKULLS AND SKELETONS OF ZIPHIOID WHALES.
Genus MESOPLODON Gervais.
MESOPLODON BIDENS (Sowerby).
MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS (Blainville)?
MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS (Gervais).
MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI True.
Genus ZIPHIUS Cuvier.
ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS Cuvier.
Genus BERARDIUS Duvernoy.
BERARDIUS BAIRDII Stejneger.
Genus HYPEROÖDON Lacépède.
HYPEROÖDON AMPULLATUS (Forster).
LIST OF SPECIES OF EXISTING ZIPHIOID WHALES.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
Plate 1 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON
Plate 2 SKULLS AND TOOTH OF MESOPLODON
Plate 3 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI
Plate 4 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON
Plate 5 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS
Plate 6 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI
Plate 7 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON
Plate 8 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS
Plate 9 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI
Plate 10 SKULLS OF MESOPLODON
Plate 11 MANDIBLES OF MESOPLODON
Plate 12 MANDIBLE AND TEETH OF MESOPLODON STEJNEGERI
Plate 13 SKELETON AND LUNGS OF MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS
Plate 14 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 15 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 16 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 17 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 18 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 19 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 20 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 21 SKULLS OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 22 MANDIBLES OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 23 MANDIBLES OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 24 MANDIBLES AND VERTEBRÆ OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 25 SKELETON OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 26 SKULLS OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 27 SKULLS OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 28 SKULLS OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 29 SKULLS OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 30 MANDIBLES OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 31 MANDIBLES OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 32 BERARDIUS BAIRDII AND HYPEROÖDON AMPULLATUS
Plate 33 SKELETON OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 34 TYMPANIC BONES OF MESOPLODON, ZIPHIUS, AND BERARDIUS
Plate 35 TYMPANIC BONES OF MESOPLODON, ZIPHIUS, AND BERARDIUS
Plate 36 PERIOTIC BONES OF MESOPLODON, ZIPHIUS, AND BERARDIUS
Plate 37 PERIOTIC BONES OF MESOPLODON, ZIPHIUS, AND BERARDIUS
Plate 38 TEETH OF ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS
Plate 39 TEETH OF BERARDIUS BAIRDII
Plate 40 MESOPLODON EUROPÆUS AND M. STEJNEGERI
Plate 41 MESOPLODON AND ZIPHIUS
Plate 42 BERARDIUS BAIRDII
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