Description A white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) off Husavík, Iceland
Source: http://fam-tille.de/sparetime.html http://fam-tille.de/island/iceland/north/2002_032.html
Date 2001-07-28, 15:00-16:00
Author Andreas Tille
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DolphinBreathing.jpg

The white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) is a marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae (dolphins) in the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales). The species was first described by the British taxonomist John Edward Gray in 1846. Due to its relative abundance in European waters, it was among the first of the genus Lagenorhynchus (lagenos, Latin for "bottle" or "flask"; rhynchos, "beak" or "snout") to be known to science. Its specific name, albirostris, translates to "white beak", a reference to the color of the species' beak, a diagnostic (albeit variable) trait useful in identification. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Delphinidae, Genus: Lagenorhynchus, Species: Lagenorhynchus albirostris (Gray, 1846).