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.