Lagenorhynchus acutus

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, Orkne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman, James W. Koeppl
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections 1982
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Delphinidae
Lagenorhynchus
Lagenorhynchus acutus
North Atlantic
Subarctic
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/7211979
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7211979
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Summary: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. 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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