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<taxonomicName ID-CoL="4256Q" authority="Gray, 1873 a" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1873" box="[203,667,151,178]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[203,504,151,178]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[151,368,197,219]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</emphasis>
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1873: p. 145. (
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<date box="[512,616,198,220]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" value="1873-06">June 1873</date>
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,295,241,265]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Common name</emphasis>
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. Strap-toothed Beaked Whale.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,292,286,310]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Current name</emphasis>
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.
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<taxonomicName authority="(J. Gray, 1865 c)" baseAuthorityName="J. Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1865" box="[310,743,286,310]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="layardii">
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<emphasis box="[310,544,286,310]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon layardii</emphasis>
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(J.
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[593,735,286,310]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="357 - 359" refId="ref131535" refString="Gray, J. E. 1865 c. Notes on the whales of the Cape; by E. L. Layard, Esq., of Cape Town, Corr. Memm. With Descriptions of two new species; by Dr. J. E. Gray. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 33 (1865): 357 - 359. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1865. tb 02350. x" type="journal article" year="1865">Gray, 1865c</bibRefCitation>
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)
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, following
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.
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. Probably the same specimen as the
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of
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<emphasis box="[121,361,390,414]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon guentheri</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Krefft, G" box="[366,511,390,414]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="368" refId="ref135936" refString="Krefft, G. 1871 b. Notice of a new Australian Ziphioid whale ... with a note by Dr. J. E. Gray, F. R. S. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 7 (41): 368. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937108696393" type="journal article" year="1871">Krefft, 1871b</bibRefCitation>
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, see previous account.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,266,435,460]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Type locality</emphasis>
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. Little Bay, Sydney, NSW according to
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="17 - 19" refId="ref131895" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 b. On Berardius and other Ziphioid whales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 11 (61): 17 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937308696756" type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873b)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[121,239,510,534]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Comments</emphasis>
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. The basis and authorship of the name
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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has remained confused and is discussed in detail below. We present new insights into the origin of this name, and suggest that potentially embarrassing mistakes are possibly the reason the basis of this name has remained obscure in the literature. It is likely that Gray, who was responsible for publishing the name, was misled by photographs sent by Krefft of an inaccurately reconstructed rostrum of the damaged
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skull of
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<emphasis box="[312,549,745,769]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon guentheri</emphasis>
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Krefft
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, stranded at Little Bay, Sydney in 1870. The initial reconstruction by AM preparator Henry Barnes resulted in an excessively elongated rostrum but it appears that Gray published the name
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<emphasis box="[121,377,862,886]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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before being alerted to the mistake.
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Support for this scenario is found in a letter from Krefft to Gray dated
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<date box="[244,437,921,945]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" value="1873-02-11">February 11, 1873</date>
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(BMNH Library Krefft letter 258, no. 22). Krefft refers to a
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<emphasis box="[444,576,950,974]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon</emphasis>
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skeleton that he had named but did not describe. Although Krefft does not mention the name
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<emphasis box="[325,448,1009,1033]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
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in the letter, no other name applied to
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<emphasis box="[235,367,1038,1062]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon</emphasis>
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by Krefft matches the details given in the letter. Krefft states: “The other whale skeleton which you refer to is
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<taxonomicName authority="Sowerbiensis" authorityName="Sowerbiensis" box="[275,554,1097,1121]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[275,554,1097,1121]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon Sowerbiensis</emphasis>
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… There are only two teeth, one in each mandible and of these I must have sent you photographs [Krefft included drawings indicating that the tooth scarcely emerged from the bone] … I named this specimen without describing it which is very reprehensible, but I thought it would turn out to be a known species and save me the trouble of enlarging upon it. Van Beneden’s figure Plate XXII [= Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 [1868–1879]) is very much like ours, there is however some difference in the shape of the skull and in the mandible … Van [Beneden] gives another figure Plate XXVI which shows only one tooth in each very similar to ours—see photograph enclosed. The head was very much broken in particular the rostral portion of it and it has been clumsily mended but I shall get it altered when there is time to do so.”
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Further support stems from a newspaper account of Australian whales, in which Krefft (1873c, published in December) makes oblique remarks that resonate with his letter to Gray. Krefft writes: “
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">a smaller whale, of a rare genus, was stranded at Little Bay … It took Henry Barnes several days to patch the lower jaw together, and the beak being restored rather larger than the original (as was found out afterwards from Van Beneden and Gervai’s splendid book); this misrepresentation multiplied by photographs sent to scientific institutions abroad, has caused considerable confusion ever since.”</emphasis>
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Krefft provided a comprehensive list of the cetacean species recorded from Australian waters in his newspaper article but makes no mention of
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<emphasis box="[246,502,1889,1913]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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, perhaps implying that he no longer regarded it to be a valid species.
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[151,353,1947,1972]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="129 - 145" refId="ref131845" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 a. Notice of the skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis) and other Whales, and other New Zealand Marine Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41 (1873): 129 - 145." type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873a: 145</bibRefCitation>
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; published in June) established the name
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<emphasis box="[192,471,1977,2001]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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when he remarked that “
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<emphasis box="[805,1066,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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of Krefft” was either “
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Berardius hectori</emphasis>
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” or a new species, based on a photograph of a skeleton sent by Krefft. Gray noted that the specimen appeared to have no teeth (evidently not visible in the photograph), and had a “beak” nearly twice the length of the head compared to 1.5 times the length in “Dr Hector’s figure” (presumably of “
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<emphasis box="[835,1039,328,352]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1871" box="[835,1031,328,352]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Berardius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hectori">Berardius hectori</taxonomicName>
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”
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</emphasis>
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). In
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<date box="[1091,1229,328,352]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" value="1873-08">August 1873</date>
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Gray presented a paper repeating these remarks verbatim (
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[1240,1408,357,381]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="87 - 89" refId="ref131940" refString="Gray, J. E. 1874. List of Seals, Whales and Dolphins of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 6: 87 - 89." type="journal article" year="1874">Gray, 1874: 89</bibRefCitation>
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), including attribution of
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<emphasis box="[1055,1178,386,410]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
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to Krefft but this was already outdated by his earlier remarks that
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<emphasis box="[1237,1358,416,440]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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was a synonym (
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[901,1031,445,469]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="129 - 145" refId="ref131845" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 a. Notice of the skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis) and other Whales, and other New Zealand Marine Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41 (1873): 129 - 145." type="journal article" year="1873">Gray, 1873a</bibRefCitation>
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, published June).
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<bibRefCitation author="Hershkovitz, P" box="[1215,1420,445,469]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="1 - 259" refId="ref133166" refString="Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalogue of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: 1 - 259. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.246" type="journal article" year="1966">Hershkovitz (1966)</bibRefCitation>
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cites
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[851,996,474,498]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="129 - 145" refId="ref131845" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 a. Notice of the skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis) and other Whales, and other New Zealand Marine Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41 (1873): 129 - 145." type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873a)</bibRefCitation>
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as the author of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1873" box="[1183,1306,474,498]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
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<emphasis box="[1183,1306,474,498]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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. Although Gray clearly attributed authorship of the name
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<emphasis box="[1298,1421,504,528]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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to Krefft, attribution is to Gray, given that diagnostic criteria were proposed by him (Article 50.1, the
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<emphasis box="[1227,1283,562,586]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Code</emphasis>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="67.[792,1422,152,1437]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">
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The first publication of the name
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1873" box="[1160,1414,592,616]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
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<emphasis box="[1160,1414,592,616]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, as a
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<emphasis box="[849,1006,621,645]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">nomen nudum</emphasis>
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, was by
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[1114,1268,621,645]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="17 - 19" refId="ref131895" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 b. On Berardius and other Ziphioid whales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 11 (61): 17 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937308696756" type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873b)</bibRefCitation>
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, published in
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<date box="[794,940,650,675]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" value="1873-01">January 1873</date>
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(publication date per
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Evenhuis, N" box="[1189,1360,650,674]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="1 - 68" refId="ref128190" refString="Evenhuis, N. L. 2003. Publication and dating of the journals forming the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History. Zootaxa 385: 1 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 385.1.1" type="journal article" year="2003">Evenhuis, 2003</bibRefCitation>
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) thus predating his paper of June establishing
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<taxonomicName authority="(Gray 1873 a)" baseAuthorityName="Gray" baseAuthorityYear="1873" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
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<emphasis box="[1229,1352,680,704]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="129 - 145" refId="ref131845" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 a. Notice of the skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis) and other Whales, and other New Zealand Marine Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41 (1873): 129 - 145." type="journal article" year="1873">Gray 1873a</bibRefCitation>
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)
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</taxonomicName>
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. In his January paper,
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<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[1112,1257,709,733]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="17 - 19" refId="ref131895" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 b. On Berardius and other Ziphioid whales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 11 (61): 17 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937308696756" type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873b)</bibRefCitation>
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concluded that the photograph sent by Krefft, on which Krefft had written “
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Krefft" authorityName="Krefft" box="[806,1161,768,792]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
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<emphasis box="[806,1082,768,792]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon longirostris</emphasis>
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||
Krefft
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
” was the same animal stranded at Little Bay to which
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Krefft, G" box="[1142,1298,797,821]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="368" refId="ref135936" refString="Krefft, G. 1871 b. Notice of a new Australian Ziphioid whale ... with a note by Dr. J. E. Gray, F. R. S. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 7 (41): 368. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937108696393" type="journal article" year="1871">Krefft (1871b)</bibRefCitation>
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had earlier applied the name “
|
||
<emphasis box="[1002,1253,826,850]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Guntheri" authorityName="Guntheri" box="[1002,1247,826,850]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Mesoplodon Güntheri</taxonomicName>
|
||
”
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
. He stated that his conclusion was based on the fact that both were full skeletons (apparently rare in world collections at that time) about
|
||
<quantity box="[857,932,914,938]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.4864" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" unit="ft" value="18.0">18 foot</quantity>
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||
long. In that paper,
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[1137,1279,914,938]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="17 - 19" refId="ref131895" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 b. On Berardius and other Ziphioid whales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 11 (61): 17 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937308696756" type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873b)</bibRefCitation>
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||
stated that he regarded “
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Krefft" authorityName="Krefft" box="[913,1110,944,968]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
|
||
<emphasis box="[913,1036,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
|
||
Krefft
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
” to be an unpublished name, and regarded the photographed specimen to be “
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Callidon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="guntheri">Callidon güntheri</taxonomicName>
|
||
”
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
—
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[926,1070,1002,1026]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" 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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||
had earlier erected
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1871" box="[1288,1381,1002,1026]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Callidon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1288,1381,1002,1026]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Callidon</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
for the
|
||
<typeStatus box="[832,923,1032,1056]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krefft. Rediscovery" authorityYear="1871" box="[950,1184,1032,1056]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="guentheri">
|
||
<emphasis box="[950,1184,1032,1056]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon guentheri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, on the mistaken belief that its tooth structure differed from
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[1177,1309,1061,1085]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1177,1309,1061,1085]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Although
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[792,939,1090,1114]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="17 - 19" refId="ref131895" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 b. On Berardius and other Ziphioid whales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 4) 11 (61): 17 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937308696756" type="journal article" year="1873">Gray (1873b)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
published the name
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[1172,1295,1090,1114]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1172,1295,1090,1114]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as a junior synonym of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Krefft. Rediscovery" authorityYear="1871" box="[921,1159,1120,1144]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="guentheri">
|
||
<emphasis box="[921,1159,1120,1144]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Mesoplodon guentheri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
the name is not available (a
|
||
<emphasis box="[822,973,1149,1173]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">nomen nudum</emphasis>
|
||
) because he did not provide a description or diagnosis (Article 12.1, the
|
||
<emphasis box="[1119,1175,1178,1202]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">Code</emphasis>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="67.[792,1422,152,1437]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">
|
||
Perhaps Gray did not have time to amend his publication of the name
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[918,1040,1237,1261]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
|
||
<emphasis box="[918,1040,1237,1261]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in his June paper (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Gray, J" box="[1231,1361,1237,1261]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" pagination="129 - 145" refId="ref131845" refString="Gray, J. E. 1873 a. Notice of the skeleton of the New Zealand Right Whale (Macleayius australiensis) and other Whales, and other New Zealand Marine Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41 (1873): 129 - 145." type="journal article" year="1873">Gray, 1873a</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) after being informed in Krefft’s letter of February, that the rostral reconstruction of the Little Bay whale was highly inaccurate.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="67.[792,1422,152,1437]" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">
|
||
We have not located any reference to
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[1207,1329,1325,1349]" class="Mammalia" family="Hyperoodontidae" genus="Mesoplodon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cetacea" pageId="67" pageNumber="344" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="longirostris">
|
||
<emphasis box="[1207,1329,1325,1349]" italics="true" pageId="67" pageNumber="344">longirostris</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in either the AM registers or on any specimen labels but this would not be surprising if our interpretation of the history of this name is correct.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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||
</treatment>
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