Order Cetacea
Author
James H. Honacki
Author
Kenneth E. Kinman
Author
James W. Koeppl
text
1982
Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Editor
James H. Honacki
Editor
Kenneth E. Kinman
Editor
James W. Koeppl
Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition)
290
304
book chapter
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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.