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WoRMS taxon details
Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828)
AphiaID: 137100
AphiaID: 137100
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Lagenorhynchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lagenorhynchus Gray, 1846 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008., 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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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Knokke [details] North West Atlantic [details] Northern North Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank Marine Life Information Network - UK To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137100 on 2010-02-09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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