Sealife guideThe atlantic white-sided dolphinLeucopleurus acutus
Last updated on 01/22/2026 at 10:06 PM
Taxonomy
English names
Atlantic white-sided dolphin
French namesDauphin à flancs blancs de l'Atlantique
Spanish namesDelfín de flancos blancos del Atlántico
Scientific nameLeucopleurus acutus (Gray, 1828)
FamilyDelphinidae
OrderCetacea
ClassMammalia
The atlantic white-sided dolphin (Leucopleurus acutus) © Chris Hill | Dreamstime.com
Within the same family
Atlantic spotted dolphinStenella frontalis
Commerson's dolphinCephalorhynchus commersonii
Common bottlenose dolphinTursiops truncatus
Indo-Pacific humpback dolphinSousa chinensis
Long-finned pilot whaleGlobicephala melas
Pacific white-sided dolphinSagmatias obliquidens
Short-beaked common dolphinDelphinus delphis
Short-finned pilot whaleGlobicephala macrorhynchus
Discover also
Amazon river dolphinInia geoffrensis
Antarctic fur sealArctocephalus gazella
Australian sea lionNeophoca cinerea
Dwarf minke whaleBalaenoptera acutorostrata
Gray whaleEschrichtius robustus
Humpback whaleMegaptera novaeangliae
NarwhalMonodon monoceros
Southern right whaleEubalaena australis
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