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Lissodelphis borealis (Peale, 1848) 
AphiaID: 254975

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) > Lissodelphis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lissodelphis Gloger, 1841
Synonymised
taxa		  Clymenia (Electra) thicolea Flower, 1884 (synonym)
 Delphinapterus borealis Peale, 1848 (basionym)
 Electra thicolea Gray, 1868 (synonym)
 Lagenorhynchus thicolea Gray, 1846 (synonym)
 Lagenorhynchus thicolea breviceps (synonym)
 Lissodelphis [peroni] borealis Hershkovitz, 1966 (synonym)
 Lissodelphis borealis albiventris Nishiwaki, 1972 (synonym)
 Tursio borealis True, 1889 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Peale, T. R. (1848). United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. VIII. Mammalia and ornithology. Cetacea:32--36.
page(s): 35, pl.8, fig.2 [details]

basis of record: 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: Jefferson, T. A. and M. W. Newcomer. (1993). Lissodelphis borealis. Mammalian Species 425:1--6. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English northern right whale dolphin  [details]
English Pacific rightwhale porpoise  [details]
English right-whale porpoise  [details]
English snake porpoise  [details]
English white bellied right whale dolphin  [details]
French dauphin aptere boréal  [details]
French dauphin à dos lisse boréal  [details]
Japanese kiti demi iruka  [details]
Japanese sao-iruka  [details]
Japanese semi-iruka  [details]
Japanese tougarashi  [details]
Korean gochu-dolgorae  [details]
Russian besperyi delfin  [details]
Russian severnyi kitovidnyi delfin  [details]
Spanish delfín liso del norte  [details]
Spanish delfín-ballena norteño  [details]
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Subspecies Lissodelphis borealis albiventris Nishiwaki, 1972 accepted as Lissodelphis borealis (Peale, 1848)
Environment marine
Distribution North Pacific [details]
Links MarineBio.org
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (44 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: oceanic, cold and warm temperate [details]

Holotype: None preserved; name and description based on animal taken at sea. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]

Type locality: North Pacific: 46 degrees, 6 minutes, 50 seconds North latitude; 134 degrees, 5 minutes West longitude (10 degrees west of Astoria, Oregon, U.S.A.). [details]
Images 
Northern right whale dolphin
Northern right whale dolphin
added on 2009-03-23 - author: Jessica Riggin ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-23 20:46:23

Northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
Northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:15:29

Northern right whale dolphins (Lissodelphis borealis)
Northern right whale dolphins (Lissodelphis borealis)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:16:21

Northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
Northern right whale dolphin (Lissodelphis borealis)
added on 2009-05-02 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:17:05
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254975
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Lissodelphis borealis. 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=254975 on 2013-05-23
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