A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea / By Thomas Bell ... Illustrated by nearly 200 woodcuts.
- Thomas Bell
- Date:
- 1837
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea / By Thomas Bell ... Illustrated by nearly 200 woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CETACEA. PHYSETERIDA, HIGH-FINNED CACHALOT. Physeter T'ursto. Linn. Specific Character.—Back with a very high narrow fin, and two or three low protuberances. Physeter Tursio, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 107, n. 4. Mutt. Zool. Dan. Prod. p- 8. Erxtes. Syst. p. 615, n. 4. Frem. Brit. An. p- 38. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 45. microps, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p.107,n. 3. Mutt. Zool. Dan. Prod. p- 7. Erxtes. Syst. p. 614, n.3. Lacep. Cét. p. 227. Desmar. Mammal. p. 525, sp. 794. Friem. Brit. An. p- 38. 5 orthodon, Lacrp. Cét. p. 256. Drsmar. Mammal. p. 526, sp. 795. r mular, Lacep. Cét. p. 259. Dersmar. Mammal. p. 526, sp. 796. High-finned Cachalot, Penn. Brit. Zool. Il]. p. 64. Suaw, Gen. Zool. II. p- 796. oP Notwirustanpine the authority of both the Cuviers, already alluded to, I have, after much consideration, decided on admitting this species as distinct ; although we are hitherto without any very satisfactory account of its characters, with the exception of that remarkable one to which it owes its usual English name. Lacépede, indeed, as well as many other writers, enumerates three species of High-finned Ca- chalots, which he also considers as generically distinct from those which are destitute of a dorsal fin: but these distinc- tions do not rest upon characters of sufficient importance in themselves, or sufficiently well attested, to sanction such an opinion. ‘The Baron Cuvier, in the work already mention- ed,* enters, with his usual critical acumen and judgment, * Ossemens Fossiles, V.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33280988_0534.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
