<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>James G. Mead</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Michael R. McGowen</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Neal Woodman</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2020</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;div id="33f98f02-708b-4904-8a51-18d18136a65b" class="widget literatumPublicationContentWidget none hyperlink blueAccentTop widget-none  widget-compact-all"&gt;&lt;div class="wrapped "&gt;&lt;div class="widget-body body body-none  body-compact-all"&gt;&lt;div class="publication-tabs ja publication-tabs-dropdown"&gt;&lt;div class="tabs tabs-widget"&gt;&lt;div class="tab-content "&gt;&lt;div class="tab tab-pane active"&gt;&lt;div class="hlFld-Abstract"&gt;&lt;div class="abstractSection abstractInFull"&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1815, the naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840) previewed three new species of cetaceans – &lt;i&gt;Delphinus dalippus&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Physeter urganantus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oxypterus mongitori&lt;/i&gt; – that he intended to describe from Sicily based on illustrations in Antonino Mongitore's published work&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Della Sicilia ricercata nelle cose più memorabili&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(1742–1743). Although formal descriptions of the three species were never published, Rafinesque's reference to Mongitore's illustrations made the names available by “indication”. The names, nonetheless, fell into obscurity, most likely a result of contemporary taxonomists' lack of access to Mongitore's work. Rafinesque's names remain relevant to the history of cetacean taxonomy, although they are no longer applicable. Moreover, the animals associated with these names add to the historical record of whale strandings in the Mediterranean. For these reasons, we studied the illustrations Rafinesque indicated for his cetaceans and reviewed Mongitore's accompanying text, which together provide sufficient distinctive characters that two of the three animals can be confidently identified with modern species, namely the sperm whale,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Physeter catodon&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;Linnaeus, 1758), and the false killer whale,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pseudorca crassidens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(Owen, 1846). Had Rafinesque's name&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;D. dalippus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;been recognized for what it was, it would have had priority over&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;P. crassidens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;as the earliest scientific name for the false killer whale.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3366/anh.2020.0659</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>University of Edinburgh Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>“Mostri Marini”: Constantine S. Rafinesque's names for three of Antonino Mongitore's Sicilian whales</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>