Translation 2783

...,. 192
compressed vertically. Above it there is a broad ûuJ.L•ing forehead.
The blow-hole is slit--liice, and very co.nvex posteriorly. At the ex--
treme tip of the lower jak: tirere is a single pair of laY•Le teeth, up
to 80 or. 85 r:rin lonÛ, shaped like la terally-colnnressed trian8•les,
which are not covered by the up.aer jaw. A second uaii• _of smaller
teeth lies farther ^up to 15 cni) from the tip of tne snout in the
males, but very ;^.^eldom occurs in the females.
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P tSî., 521. ( CL'B^ !SSüÎ llAi{il)ü.
1oig. 5 2: T^orth l'acific giant bottle-nosed rrirale.
The lenCtti. of the flippers is 12;.-. of the body lengtii. •l'hey
resel.ible oars in shape, beine elongated and brôaderiing from the base
to the tip, with rounded corners. -r.•he dorsal fin varies in shape;
its tleight is up to 2.5;;:: of the body lengi;h, and it is locdted in
front of the rear quarter of the ani.rnwl' s body. •-L•he flukes are separated
by a srna.ll notch. Their spread is u^ to 25;;- of ti.e body lenroth.
'i'here are two grooves or, the throat, diverging laterally and
almost parallel to the outer.. edge of the lower jaw; they are about
1.0--1 .25. metres lonk,; they do not unite in :L'ront, cometines there
are frora one or, two to 16 s;lia1l grooves between tirem.
The body colour var.ies, rior3t of-L-en one -.Cinds specimeny wilose
body is nlacr^ or li-,^;llt--colourec3.. On the ventral .si.de, usu,illy near
the umbilicus, i:hcre are white spots or marks of di.ffe:i:ent shaNes.
There are 47 or ij.& vertebrae ^seven ceI'vica.l, i:en.oreleven 129
t'lorii.c:Lc,, 12 llll:iba r,
and 17^19 caudal).
In tlie norti•,c:rn lierrii.^-ohere 1•.ort,r jacif.;.c t;iant bo ttle--nosed
t,111riles are .f;`oui;ti only in i:ne nc,r•Ll.errr of tic AP.ci.fic t,cef.iu, i'rom
i;lio zone of modErra-Lely-ti•rarln wat,er to ti:c: Arc tic l:l.;,;i.ori:>. T410 iior.tlic;rrr
al' 'Li_ci]: rai 1,-"e COi]ICi.C:eS Witt, that Of S;^c'rRi l•!lialeÜ, f1:ola
ld£LVEI.Y.'].rr
.l.Sl'cLrlUs.
enâtwarCl a nu .r ioutl^ea:3tD/a7'd to the eus LeI'i7 part of the Aleutian
'.:lley have also been ob3i!rveu a{iloni.; ]-ce--l.l-oes in tfl"c: oea of
y
Otil'lotsk.