Pacific White Sided Dolphin

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The Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens), also known as the hookfin porpoise, is a very active dolphin found in the cool or temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean. == Taxonomy == The Pacific white-sided dolphin was named by Smithsonian mammalogist Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1865. It is morphologically similar to the dusky dolphin, which is found in the South Pacific.