Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 353

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Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846)
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Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 17:84.

TYPE LOCALITY: None given in original description, given by Gray (1846:35) as UK, England, "North Sea, coast of Norfolk.", and by Gray (1850) as Great Yarmouth .

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

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: pseudotursio .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Lagenorhynchus

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