"A more barbarous piece of work was doubtless never perpetrated in natural history than the burdening of cetology by Chamisso with nine "species' of cetaceans based on wooden images made by the Aleuts." Balaena kuliomoch = Balaena sp.; B. abugulich, B. mangidach, and B. agamachtschich = Balaenoptera sp.; B. aliomoch = M. novaeangliae; B. tschikagluck is unrecognizable; Physeter agidagich = P. catodon; Ancylodon? alugninich is unrecognizable; Delp[h]inus aguluch = O. orca. [= equals 'resembles in some way'].
