The marine mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh / by Sir Wm. Turner.

  • William Turner
Date:
1912
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Credit: The marine mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh / by Sir Wm. Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (1) CVSTOPHORA CRISTATA. (Cy. CR.) (Crested, Hooded, or Bladder-nosed Seal, North Atlantic, Arctic Ocean.) Plioca cristata, Erxlehen, Syst. Reg. Anim., 1777. Cystopliora cristata, Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844. Colour bluish black above, lighter on sides and belly with irregular spots, head and limbs black. Adult males with inflated narial sac. First and fifth toes of pes longer than intermediate toes, nails rudi- mentary or absent. Anterior nares capacious, widest in upper third. Hard palate truncated at posterior border, reaching close to hamulars. Man- dible with longitudinal incurved subcondyloid ridge not reaching angle; coronoid elongated. Length of male 7 to 8 feet, of female about 7 feet. Vertebral formula C^D^^L-S^Cd^Q = 41. 1. Skull, adult. Length 11 inches, over vertex 15J inches; breadth, zygomatic 8-|- inches, cranial inches. Mandible 7t inches; pair of sagittal ridges separated by triangular interspace. Teeth a little worn. Anterior nares, sagittal diameter 3f inches, transverse 2| inches. North Atlantic. Donor—Dr James Foulis. 2. Skull, adult. Length lOf inches, over vertex 14| inches; breadth, zygomatic 8-| inches, cranial 5^ inches. No mandible. Anterior nares, sagittal 3f inches, trans- verse diameter 2i inches. Teeth absent; pair of sagittal ridges. North Atlantic. Turner Collection. 3. Skull, adult. Length 10 inches, over vertex 14| inches; breadth, zygomatic 8|^ inches, cranial 5| inches. Mandible 7 } inches. Teeth only a little worn; pair of sagittal ridges Turner Collection. 4. Skull, adult. Right tympanic wanting. Length lOf inches, over vertex 14| inches. Breadth, zygomatic 7| inches, cranial 5 inches. Mandible 7] inches. Teeth worn ; pair of sagittal ridges. North Atlantic. , Turner Collection. 5. Skull, young adult, male. Length 9| inches, over vertex Ilf inches. Breadth, zygomatic 0] inches, cranial 4^ inches. Mandible 6 inches. Teeth a little worn. Greenland Sea, north of Jan Mayen Island. Donor—Dr Rt. Brown, 1861. 13