Author: | Gill, 1865. |
Citation: | Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 177. |
Common Name: | Pacific White-sided Dolphin |
Type Locality: | USA, "obtained at San Francisco, California". |
Distribution: | North Pacific: cold-temperate waters except warm-temperate waters of the ends of its range. Undocumented sighting from Hong Kong (Hammond and Leatherwood, 1984:495). |
Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). |
Comments: | May be a northern hemisphere form of L. obscurus. Lagenorhynchus thicolea is not synonymous with L. obliquidens (see Lissodelphis). |
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Offspring: | Synonyms:
longidens (Cope, 1866) ognevi Slensov, 1955
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