Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Lagenorhynchus albirostris

Description

Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 17:84.

TYPE LOCALITY: None given in original description, given by Gray (1846:35) as UK, England, "North Sea, coast of Norfolk.", and by Gray (1850) as Great Yarmouth.

DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic: cold-temperate waters; L. albirostris tends to be distributed to the north of L. acutus.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: pseudotursio.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 353, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Lagenorhynchus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Species
albirostris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993