WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850)

Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850)
AphiaID: 137106

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Delphinidae (Family) > Stenella (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Stenella Gray, 1866

Synonymised
taxa

Clymene normalis Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Clymenia normalis Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Delphinus clymene Gray, 1850 (basionym)
Delphinus metis [No.2] Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Prodelphinus clymene Lütken, 1889 (synonym)
Prodelphinus normalis Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)

Sources

basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A. and B. E. Curry. (2003). Stenella clymene. Mammalian Species 726:1--5. [details]

additional source: Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Culik, B. 2000. Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins., available online at http://www.wcmc.org.uk/cms/reports/small_cetaceans/data/K_sima/K_sima.htm [details]

additional source: Fertl, D., T.A. Jefferson, I.B. Moreno, A.N. Zerbini, and K.D. Mullin. 2003. Distribution of the Clymene dolphin Stenella clymene. Mammal Review 33(3-4): 253-271. [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	Clymene dolphin	[details]
English	helmet dolphin	[details]
English	short-snouted spinner dolphin	[details]
French	dauphin de Clyméné	[details]
Portuguese	golfinho climene	[details]
Spanish	delfín Clymene	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Central Atlantic Ocean [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]

Links

To GenBank
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS

Notes

Distribution: New Jersey to Southern Brazil [details]

Habitat: tropical and subtropical, oceanic [details]

Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), London; no. 350a. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details]

Type locality: Unknown [details]

Image

Clymene dolphin
added on 2009-04-23 - author: Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries (

)
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-23 01:11:42

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	van der Land, Jacob
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z	checked	Perrin, William

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Citation: Perrin, W. (2009). Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137106 on 2010-09-02

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