Some notes on the Cetacea of the Irish Atlantic coast / by R.J. Anderson.

  • Anderson, Richard John, 1848-1914.
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: Some notes on the Cetacea of the Irish Atlantic coast / by R.J. Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Extrait des Comptes rendus du 6'e Congres international de Zoo logic. Session de Lierne 1904. Some Notes on the Cetacea of the Irish Atlantic Coast. The following Cetaceans were stranded during the last few years: Baleenoptera rostrata, Globiocephalus melas, Grampus griseus (rissoa- nus), Mesoplodon Hectori Gray, and Lagonorhychus. Several other ge- nera have been met with Delphis and Phocsena, skeletons of Orca (in whole or paid), Megaptera, Balsenoptera musculus, Mesoplodon bidens. Mesoplodon Hectori Gray, is one of the most interesting that has come to us. A young specimen was stranded some years ago near Galway. We obtained an almost complete skeleton and have it mounted. A second specimen was stranded on one of the Aran Islands last winter, we ob- tained the head of this latter. The length of the first specimen was 4m,25 and that of the second 6ra,37. The girth of the latter at its thickest part This whale was originally described from a young specimen and thought to be a Ziphius because of the pair of small teeth near the apex ot the mandible. Sir William Turner showed that the genus Ziphius differs from Mesoplodon in the characters of the tympanic and nasal bones and the nasopremaxillary region. By Prof. B. J. ANDERSON (Galway). With 4 Plates.