Stenella attenuata (Gray 1846)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 733

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scientific name

Stenella attenuata (Gray 1846)
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Stenella attenuata (Gray 1846) View in CoL

[Steno] attenuatus Gray 1846 View in CoL , Zool. Voy. H. M. S. "Erebus" and "Terror", Vol. 1: 44.

Type Locality: None given, unknown (possibly India, see Gray, 1843).

Vernacular Names: Pantropical Spotted Dolphin.

Synonyms: Stenella dubius (G. Cuvier 1812) .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Stenella attenuata subsp. attenuata Gray 1846

Subspecies Stenella attenuata subsp. graffmani Lönnberg 1934

Distribution: Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: Perrin et al. (1987) revised this species. D. dubius is a nomen nudum [sic dubium] ( Perrin et al., 1987). Opinion 1660 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1991) conserved attenuatus Gray, 1846 and suppressed velox Cuvier, 1829, pseudodelphis Schlegel, 1841, and brevimanus Wagner, 1846. Rice (1998:108) recognized Stenella attenuata subspecies A of Perrin (1975) (Eastern Tropical Pacific Offshore Spotted Porpoise), S. a. subspecies B of Perrin (1975) (Hawaiian Spotted Porpoise), and S. a. graffmani (Eastern Pacific Coastal Spotted Porpoise ( Perrin, 1975)).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Stenella

Loc

Stenella attenuata (Gray 1846)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Steno] attenuatus

Gray 1846: 44
1846
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