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Lagenorhynchus acutus
Description
Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828). Spicil. Zool., 1:2.
TYPE LOCALITY: North Sea, Faeroe Isis. (Denmark) (uncertain).
DISTRIBUTION: Cold temperate to subarctic waters of the North Atlantic, south to Massachusetts (U.S.A.) and British Isles.
COMMENT: Type locality given by OLR as Great Britain, Orkney Isis., fide Tomilin, 1957, [Mamm. U.S. S. R., Adjac. Count.], 9: 952. Gromov and Baranova, 1981:221 stated that the holotype, a skull in the Rijksmuseum, Leiden, is "apparently, from the region of the Faeroe Isis." (R. S. Hoffmann).
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea.
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411002012001001.
Notes
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, pp. 290-304 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 293, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983
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Related works
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352983 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/3C48BD20FFBFFFB2FFEA4163CA624C0E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Lagenorhynchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Cetacea
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Species
- acutus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982
References
- Tomilin, A. G. 1957. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Kitoobrazyne. (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of USSR and adjacent countries: Cetacea (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 9: 1 - 756 (in Russian).
- Gromov, I. M., and G. I. Baranova (eds.). 1981. Katalog mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Catalog of mammals of the USSR]. Nauka, Leningrad, 456 pp. (in Russian).