“Mostri Marini”: Constantine S. Rafinesque's names for three of Antonino Mongitore's Sicilian whales

• Published in: Archives of Natural History
• Main Authors: Woodman, Neal, Mead, James G., McGowen, Michael R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 2020
• Subjects: Killer Whale; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2020.0659; https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/anh.2020.0659

In 1815, the naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840) previewed three new species of cetaceans – Delphinus dalippus, Physeter urganantus and Oxypterus mongitori – that he intended to describe from Sicily based on illustrations in Antonino Mongitore's published work Della Sicilia ric...