Translation 2783

. ... 181
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are of the same colour as the back above, but their under surface
is. usually greY.
The number of baleen.plates in each row varies greatlY (from
31 8 to . 340 in ;.:orth Atlantic specimens, from 219 to 315 in specimens
from the northern 'part of the .tacific Ocean, and from 296 to 402 in
sel whales of the southern hemispnere). rhe longest plates are located
at the beinning of the i.ostorior third of a row cf 'baleen, and the
larast of those seldom enceod 80 cm in length .. i ho baleen is usually -
dark-grey, but one sometimes comes upon white plates. rho fringes
of the plates are fine in structure and grey in colour, and form.an
excellent filtering apparatus.
Where are from 55 to 57 vertebrae (seven cervical, 14 thoracic,
13 lumbar,' and 22 or 23 caudal).
The sel whale is . found in both cold and warm waters in both
hemispheres, but is regarded as a more warmth-loving species than
the fin. whale.
The sel whales in the northern parts of the Atlantic and -.vac-
.
ifie Oceans are classified as the independent subspecies B. borealis
borealis Lesson, 1826, and those in the soutnern hemisphere as the
subspecies B. boreaiis schlege li Flower, 1864.
-Bryde's Whale (balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 ).*
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The name accented for this whale is. that conferred upon
it by E. Ulsen (1915) in honour of the Norwegian Conuul-ueneral in
Capetown, Johan jiryde. We express the pronunciation in faissian characters
it would be more correct to write tee name,"_bryude", instead
of Lraïda,.as is done in 6oviet literature.
à.ryde's whale does not occur in coastal waters adjacent to
the soviet Union, and was first taken for scientific purposes by
whalers on the ship Sovetskaya ukraina on' eovember 1 . 4, 1966, the
aree ;2 0 -24 0 S, 67 ° -68 °
The first report on the biology of tilis whale was made at the
beginLing of the 20th century on the coast of .;outh Africa, where
baleen whaleG were being taken. AmenG t-e sei whales•taken ti.ere the .
whalers sometimes opserved whales tnat resembled fin whales in a-
number of fea -i:ures, and some rearded them as hyeries between fin
whales ane Sei whales. The body len fith or !;n0 laripst specimens was
15:3 metres for males and 15.5 metree fur females..
CoMpa ...ison of the measurements of various parts or the body,