Catalogue of seals and whales in the Museum (1866) (20590801191)
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Title: Catalogue of seals and whales in the ... Museum
Identifier: catalogueofseals00brit (find matches)
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: British Museum. Department of Zoology. (Mammals); Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Natural History Museum Library, London
Digitizing Sponsor: Natural History Museum Library, London
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38 SubfamUy 4. CYSTOPHOEINA. Muzzle of the nudes with an injlatile appendage. Cutting-teeth ;-; grinders luith a large swollen root, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited croivn. Muffle hairy. Steiiimatopioa, Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 340. Cvstiiplioiiua, Gray, Zool. Erehus ^- Terror, 3; Cat. SealsB. M.S3. Cvstophora, Nilsson, Vet. Akad. Handl.: Skand. Fauna: Wier/m. Arch. vii. 323. Mii-ounga, Gray, Griffith's A. "K. v. 179, 1827. Phoca, § 2, F. 'Cuvier, Mem. Mies. xi. 196. 13. MORUNGA. Nose of the male with an elongated tubular proboscis ; muzzle of the skuU broad, truncated in front; forehead convex; hinder palatine bone short, transverse. Hair flat, truncated, adpressed; whiskers round, rather waved, thick. Claws, front obsolete, hinder distinct. Fig. 13.
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Morunga elephantina. Skull. The head broad, short, truncated in front, with a tuft of bristles over each eye, and one on each side of the middle of the muzzle ; the upper lip longer than the lower ; the forehead convex ; the nostrils of the male "are wrinkled, and can be blown up into a crest" (Forster), " with an elongate tubular proboscis" (Peron); of the female simple, rounded, with a haiiy muffle between and around the edge of the nostrils. Cutting-teeth 4) far apart, conical, the two middle iipper smaller, the rest nearly equal; the grinders with large, swollen, subcylin- drical roots, and a small, compressed, simple, plaited crown ; the hinder palatine bones short, transverse.