Lagenorhynchus acutus

• 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://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7211979; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C071C558FFBCFFB1FF134272C91C48A2

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