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<emphasis box="[197,464,1680,1701]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 4)</emphasis>
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7: 368, figs 1–2. (
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<date box="[637,752,1680,1702]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343" value="1871-05-01">1 May 1871</date>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[166,340,1723,1747]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Common name</emphasis>
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. Strap-toothed Beaked Whale.
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.
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<emphasis box="[355,590,1769,1793]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Mesoplodon layardii</emphasis>
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(J.
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)
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Perrin (
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.
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. All material by subsequent determination. The
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is thought to be the following material, but further verification is required: PA.358, PA.358.001, skull and artificial dentaries, the skull has also been labelled PA.363; PA.358.002, near complete, partly articulated skeleton, (pelvic bones listed in Palmer Register not yet located); PA.359, original dentaries; PA.363, three hyoid bones; PA.364, three sternum bones.
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The original entries written by Palmer in the
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” and the Remarks column lists 358 as “Skeleton. Jaws restored” and for 359 “fractured jaws of above”. Palmer did not mark either entry as being a type. A subsequent entry against PA.358 and PA.
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1918 signed by
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states: “evidently the
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of the name
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cites registration numbers for the
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as “P358, 359, and 364 skeleton” but this reflects confusion about the registration numbers and material in the collection at that time
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.
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The
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was stranded in late 1870 (
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<bibRefCitation author="Scott, A" pageId="66" pageNumber="343" refId="ref144097" refString="Scott, A. W. 1873. Mammalia, Recent and Extinct; an Elementary Treatise for the Use of the Public Schools of New South Wales. Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer. xii + 142 + vii pp." type="book" year="1873">Scott, 1873: 116</bibRefCitation>
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). The sex of the
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was not recorded in the original description (perhaps because the body was “very much hacked and lacerated”), or in the Palmer Register entry. Sexual dimorphism was later recognized in this taxon and the specimen was considered to be female (e.g., by J.
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<bibRefCitation author="Ogilby, J" box="[841,984,767,792]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343" refId="ref139872" refString="Ogilby, J. D. 1892. Catalogue of Australian Mammals, with Introductory Notes on General Mammalogy. Sydney: Trustees, Australian Museum. xvi + 142 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1130" type="book" year="1892">Ogilby, 1892</bibRefCitation>
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,957,813,837]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Condition</emphasis>
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. PA.358.001: damaged whole skull, missing anterior part of rostrum which has been replaced by wood/ cast, left side of braincase missing and replaced with wood/ cast; both dentaries and teeth are artificial, modelled from wood. PA.358.002: damaged whole skeleton; some ribs are broken, but have been repaired. The skeleton is partially articulated (rib cage separate to vertebrae). PA.359 (original dentaries): incomplete and damaged dentaries: both dentaries missing teeth, left dentary is broken in two places, wired together; right dentary is fragmented and wired together; missing coronoid and condylar processes; angular process broken off but wired together.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,988,1181,1205]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Type locality</emphasis>
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. Little Bay, near Long Bay, Sydney, NSW (
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,c).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[839,963,1255,1279]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Comments</emphasis>
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. Krefft’s brief description was based on one complete skeleton of a whale which he states was
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long. A drawing of a tooth accompanied his description but he did not provide cranial measurements or illustrations of the skull. He also mentioned some preserved viscera, which are no longer in the collection. Krefft stated that the skeleton was complete but that the body was badly lacerated. P Register annotations made in the late 19th and early 20th century indicate uncertainty about the identity of Krefft’s original specimen, which remains unresolved pending a comprehensive assessment of
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<emphasis box="[1168,1300,1549,1573]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Mesoplodon</emphasis>
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material at the AM and archival photographs.
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[869,1020,1608,1632]" pageId="66" pageNumber="343" pagination="368" refId="ref131755" refString="Gray, J. E. 1871 a. Notice of a new Ziphioid whale. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 7 (41): 368. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937108696393" type="journal article" year="1871">Gray (1871a)</bibRefCitation>
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, in a footnote to Krefft’s paper (
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), proposed the genus
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<emphasis box="[1176,1275,1637,1661]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Callidon</emphasis>
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, based on tooth morphology of the
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of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Krefft. Rediscovery" authorityYear="1871" box="[1163,1267,1666,1690]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="66" pageNumber="343" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="guentheri">guentheri</taxonomicName>
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,
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which he believed was radically different from his concept of tooth morphology of
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<emphasis box="[875,1017,1725,1749]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Mesoplodon</emphasis>
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. However, Flower (in
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) expressed the view that such differences in tooth morphology were likely to be due to age or sex. Krefft (1873c) does not mention
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<emphasis box="[980,1082,1813,1837]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">guentheri</emphasis>
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in his comprehensive summary of Australian whale taxa, implying that he no longer recognized it as a valid species. (Article 32.5.2.1 of the
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<emphasis box="[1322,1378,1871,1895]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">Code</emphasis>
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dictates that diacritic marks of German names must be amended, thus
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<emphasis box="[890,980,1930,1954]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">güntheri</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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becomes
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<emphasis box="[1087,1189,1930,1954]" italics="true" pageId="66" pageNumber="343">guentheri</emphasis>
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.)
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