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Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865 
AphiaID: 254981

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 longidens Cope, 1866 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus longidens Cope, 1866 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus ognevi Sleptsov, 1955 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Gill, T. (1865). On two species of Delphinidae, from California, in the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Sept. 1865:177--178. [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: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Rice, D.W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4:1--231/ [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English hookfin porpoise  [details]
English lag  [details]
English Pacific striped dolphin  [details]
English Pacific white-sided dolphin  [details]
English striped porpoise  [details]
French dauphin à flancs blancs du Pacifiqe  [details]
Japanese kama iruka  [details]
Russian tikhookeanskyi belobokyi delfin  [details]
Spanish delfín de costados blancos del Pacífico  [details]
Spanish delfín lagenorringo  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution North Pacific [details]
Links To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: offshore waters, sometimes near shore [details]

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

Type locality: Near San Francisco, California, U.S.A. [details]

Type material: Three skulls, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, nos. 1961, 1962, 1963, collected by W. A. Trowbridge, cataloged October 25, 1855. [details]
Images 
Zweden, Berlin & Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
Zweden, Berlin & Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
added on 2009-02-14 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:56:17

Pacific white-sided dolphin
Pacific white-sided dolphin
added on 2009-03-23 - author: Jessica Riggin ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-23 20:50:23

Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
added on 2009-05-01 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-01 23:56:14

Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
added on 2009-05-01 - author: NOAA NMFS SWFSC PRD
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-01 23:57:10

Whiteside dolphin
Whiteside dolphin
added on 2010-02-10 - author: Jorgensen, Georg
qualitystatus: not checked
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Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865. In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254981 on 2010-09-02
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