Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Delphinidae > Genus Lagenorhynchus

Lagenorhynchus albirostris Gray, 1846

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lagenorhynchus*	Gray, 1846	accepted genus name
*Leucopleurus*	Gray, 1866	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Czech: plískavice bělonosá

Danish: hvidnæse sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: dolfijn met witten snuit; witsnuitdolfijn

English: white-beaked bottlenose; white-beaked dolphin; white-nosed dolphin sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: dauphin à bec blanc; dauphin à rostre blanc sources: Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

German: weisschnauziger delphin; weisschnauziger Springer; Weißschnauzendelfin; weißschnauziger Delfin; weißschnauziger Springer sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Λευκόρυγχος λαγηνόρυγχος sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: hnydingur; hofrungur

Italian: lagenorinco rostrobianco sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Kalaallisut: niza

Lithuanian: baltasnukis delfinas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: hvidnaese; hvidsnudet delfin; hvitsnutet springer

Norwegian Bokmål: kvitnos sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: kvitnos sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: delfin białonosy sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: belonosyi delfin; belorylyi delfin; дельфин беломордый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: belokljuni pisani delfin; elokljuni pisani delfin sources: Davorin Tome;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: delfín de hocico blanco sources: Jefferson, T.A.; Leatherwood, S.; Webber, M.A. (1993). Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species identification guide. FAO: Rome, Italy. ISBN 92-5-103292-0. VIII, 320 pp.

Swedish: vitnos sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: ak burunlu yunus sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Дельфін біломордий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: dolffin pigwyn

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1846). On the British Cetacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17:82–85.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
additional source	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Carwardine, M., E. Hoyt, R. E. Fordyce and P. Gill. 1998. Whales, dolphins and porpoises. Time-Life Books. Nature Company Guides, USA. 288 p.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
new combination reference	Gray J.E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror. Volume 1: Mammalia and Birds.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Lagenorhynchus albirostris Gray, 1846. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137101