Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray, 1828) . Spicil. Zool., 1:2.

TYPE LOCALITY: None given, listed as North Sea, Faeroe Isis. (Denmark) (uncertain) by Gray (1846:36) .

DISTRIBUTION: North Atlantic: cold temperate waters; L. acutus tends to be distributed to the south of L. albirostris .

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: gubernator, leucopleurus, perspicillatus .