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WoRMS taxon details
Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828) AphiaID: 137100
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Lagenorhynchus Gray, 1846 |
Synonymised taxa | |
Delphinus (Grampus) acutus Gray, 1828
Delphinus acutus Gray, 1828 (synonym)
Delphinus eschrichtii Schlegel, 1841 (synonym)
Delphinus leucopleurus Rasch, 1843 (synonym)
Electra acuta Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus gubernator Cope, 1876 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus leucopleurus Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus perspicillatus Cope, 1876 (synonym)
Leicopleurus arcticus Tomilin, 1957 (misspelling)
Leucopleurus arcticus Gray, 1846 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
original description: Gray J.E. (1828). Original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Spicilegia Zoologica Part 1. page(s): 2 [details]
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p. [details]
additional source: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species
of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]
additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]
additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]
additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]
additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Danish |
hvidskaering |
[details] |
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Danish |
hvidskæving |
[details] |
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Danish |
Hvidskjaevings-Springeren |
[details] |
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Danish |
kvaessing |
[details] |
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Dutch |
witflankdolfijn |
[details] |
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Dutch |
witzijdedolfijn |
[details] |
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Dutch |
witzijdolfijn |
[details] |
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English |
Atlantic white-sided dolphin |
[details] |
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English |
Eschricht's dolphin |
[details] |
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English |
jumper |
[details] |
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English |
skunk porpoise |
[details] |
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French |
dauphin à flancs blancs de l' Atlantique |
[details] |
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German |
nordischer Delfin |
[details] |
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German |
nordischer Dolphin |
[details] |
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German |
Springer |
[details] |
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German |
Weißseitendelfin |
[details] |
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Icelandic |
leiftur |
[details] |
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Italian |
lagenorinco acuto |
[details] |
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Lithuanian |
atlantinis baltašonis delfinas |
[details] |
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Lithuanian |
Atlanto baltašonis delfinas |
[details] |
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Modern Greek (1453-) |
Λαγηνόρυγχος του Ατλαντικού |
[details] |
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Norwegian |
hvidskjaevingen |
[details] |
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Norwegian |
hvitskjering |
[details] |
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Norwegian |
springhval |
[details] |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
kvitskjeving |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
kvitskjeving |
[details] |
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Polish |
delfin białoboki |
[details] |
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Russian |
belobokyi delfin |
[details] |
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Russian |
ostrorylyi delfin |
[details] |
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Russian |
атлантический белобокий дельфин |
[details] |
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Slovenian |
Atlantski pisani delfin |
[details] |
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Spanish |
delfín atlántico de flancos blancos |
[details] |
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Spanish |
delfín de flancos blancos |
[details] |
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Spanish |
delfín de flancos blancos del Atlántico |
[details] |
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Swedish |
vitsiding |
[details] |
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Turkish |
Atlantik beyaz yanlı yunusu |
[details] |
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Ukrainian |
Атлантичний білобокий дельфін |
[details] |
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Ukrainian |
Дельфін атлантичний білобокий |
[details] |
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Welsh |
dolffin ystlyswyn |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Knokke [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern North Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain) [details]
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| Links | | Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (152 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (77 nucleotides; 44 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Diet: various fish, squid, and some crustaceans [details]
Dimensions: Length: male 7-9' (2.2-2.7 m), female 6-9' (1.9-2.7 m), at birth 3 1/2' (1.1 m) [details]
Distribution: Northern East and West Atlantic Ocean [details]
Habitat: cold temperate to subpolar, mostly in deep water [details]
Habitat: inshore to mainly offshore [details]
Holotype: Sull originally in Brooke's Museum, London, and sold to the Leiden Zoological Museum, Netherlands. [details]
IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]
Morphology: Distinguishing characteristics: colour black with yellow and white patches on side and white belly. Dives without lifting tail. Blow not readily visible. Curved dorsal fin. Small beak. [details]
Reproduction: Calving: June to July; Weaning: 1.5 years [details]
Type locality: Unknown; determined as the Faroe Islands on the basis of the provenance of the subjective synonym eschrichtii Schlegel, by Gray (1846, Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror) [details]
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| Images | |
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 35) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:51:21 |
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Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 36) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:51:30 |
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Lagenorhynchus acutus added on 2012-01-31 - author: VLIZ collection qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137100 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Lagenorhynchus acutus. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137100 on 2013-05-26 |
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