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Supplement to the catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum

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Supplement to the catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum

John Edward Gray

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A working catalogue of the seals and whales in the British Museum, arranged family by family from the true seals to the walruses. John Edward Gray sorts the tribes of Phocidae and their kin with a taxonomist's precision. A reference from the great age of museum zoology. For the student of marine mammals, the specimens laid out in order.

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  1. 1SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE OF SEALS AND WHALES.
  2. 2Suborder PINNIPEDIA.
  3. 3Family 1. PHOCIDÆ.
  4. 4Tribe I. PHOCINA.
  5. 5Tribe II. HALICHŒRINA.
  6. 6Tribe III. MONACHINA.
  7. 7Tribe IV. STENORHYNCHINA.
  8. 8Tribe V. CYSTOPHORINA.
  9. 9Family 2. TRICHECHIDÆ.
  10. 101. TRICHECHUS.
  11. 11Family 3. OTARIADÆ.
  12. 12Synopsis of the Genera.
  13. 13Tribe I. OTARIINA.
  14. 14Tribe II. CALLORHININA.
  15. 15Tribe III. ARCTOCEPHALINA.
  16. 16Tribe IV. ZALOPHINA.
  17. 17Tribe V. EUMETOPIINA.
  18. 18Order CETACEA.

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