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Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) 
AphiaID: 137107

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 dorides Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Clymene euphrosyne Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Clymene similis Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Clymenia aesthenops Dall in Scammon, 1874 (synonym)
Clymenia burmeisteri Malm, 1871 (synonym)
Clymenia crotaphisca Dall in Scammon, 1874 (synonym)
Clymenia crotaphiscus Gray, 1871 (synonym)
Clymenia dorides Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Clymenia esthenops Gray, 1871 (synonym)
Clymenia euphrosyne Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Clymenia euphrosynoides Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Clymenia novaezelandiae Hector, 1873 (synonym)
Clymenia similis Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Clymenia styx Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Delphinus amphitriteus Philippi, 1893 (synonym)
Delphinus asthenops Cope, 1865 (synonym)
Delphinus coeruleoalbus Meyen, 1833 (basionym)
Delphinus crotaphiscus Cope, 1865 (synonym)
Delphinus delphis mediterranea Nobre, 1900 (synonym)
Delphinus euphrosyne Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Delphinus holbolli Eschricht, 1847 (synonym)
Delphinus lateralis Peale, 1848 (synonym)
Delphinus marginatus Desmarest, 1856 (synonym)
Delphinus mediterraneus Loche, 1860 (synonym)
Delphinus styx Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Delphinus tethyos Gervais, 1853 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus caeruleoalbus Gray, 1850 (synonym)
Lagenorhynchus lateralis Cassin, 1858 (synonym)
Lagenorrhynchus caeruleoalbus Burmeister, 1867 (misspelling)
Orca tethyos Gerrard, 1865 (synonym)
Prodelphinus amphitriteus True, 1903 (synonym)
Prodelphinus burmeisteri Trouessart, 1904 (synonym)
Prodelphinus coeruleoalbus True, 1889 (synonym)
Prodelphinus coeruleoalbus euphrosyne Bobrinski, 1944 (synonym)
Prodelphinus crotaphiscus Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)
Prodelphinus doreides Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)
Prodelphinus euphrosine Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)
Prodelphinus euphrosinoides Trouessart, 1898 (synonym)
Prodelphinus euphrosyne Flower, 1885 (synonym)
Prodelphinus lateralis True, 1889 (synonym)
Prodelphinus marginatus Desmarest, 1856 (synonym)
Stenella asthenops (Cope, 1865) (synonym)
Stenella caeruleoalba Scheffer & Rice, 1963 (synonym)
Stenella caeruleoalbus Tomilin, 1957 (synonym)
Stenella caeruleoalbus caeruleoalbus Tomilin, 1957 (synonym)
Stenella caeruleoalbus euphrosyne Tomilin, 1957 (synonym)
Stenella coeruleoalbus Hershkovitz, 1966 (synonym)
Stenella crotaphiscus Hershkovitz, 1966 (synonym)
Stenella crotaphyscus Honacki et al., 1982 (synonym)
Stenella euphrosyne Oliver, 1922 (synonym)
Stenella styx Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 (synonym)
Tursio dorcides Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Meyen, F. J. F. (1833). Beiträge zur Zoologie, gesammelt auf einer Reise um de Erde. Zweite Abhandlung. Säugethiere. IV. Walle. Cetacea. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldisnisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher 16(2);609--610, pl.43. [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: 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: Archer, F. I., II and W. F. Perrin. (1999). Stenella coeruleoalba. Mammalian Species 603:1--9. [details]

additional source: King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Arabic delfin azrak wa abyad  [details]
Croatian prugasti dupin  [details]
Dutch dolfijn van Gray  [details]
Dutch gestreepte dolfijn  [details]
English blue dolphin  [details]
English blue-white dolphin  [details]
English Euphrosyne dolphin  [details]
English Gray's dolphin  [details]
English streaker porpoise  [details]
English striped dolphin  [details]
French dauphin bleu et blanc  [details]
Greek zónodelfino  [details]
Hebrew stenella mefuspeset  [details]
Italian delfino dalle briglie  [details]
Italian delfino eufrosine  [details]
Italian delfino striato  [details]
Italian prodelfino bianco-ceruleo  [details]
Italian stenella striata  [details]
Japanese suji iruka  [details]
Portuguese golfinho-listrado  [details]
Portuguese golfinho-riscado  [details]
Russian polosatyi delfin  [details]
Russian polosatyi prodelfin  [details]
Russian stenella  [details]
Slovenian Navadni progasti delfin  [details]
Spanish delfín azul  [details]
Spanish delfín listado  [details]
Spanish estenela listada  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Comores [details]
Eritrea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Links To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Nova Scotia south to at least Jamaica and in the Gulf of Mexico [details]

Distribution: circum-global between 50°N and 40°S [details]

Habitat: oceanic [details]

Holotype: Skeleton in Zoological Museum, Berlin, Germany; no. ZMB 51226. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern (LC) [details]

Spelling: In Müller (2004) as S. caeruleolaba [details]

Type locality: East coast of South America in the vicinity of the La Plata River. [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 38)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, plaat 38)
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Stenella coeruleoalba
Stenella coeruleoalba
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Zweden, Järnskär & Stenella coeruleoalba
Zweden, Järnskär & Stenella coeruleoalba
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Stenella coeruleoalba
Stenella coeruleoalba
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Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the eastern tropical Pacific
Striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the eastern tropical Pacific
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Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the eastern tropical Pacific
Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) in the eastern tropical Pacific
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Stenella coeruleoalba
Stenella coeruleoalba
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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 coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833). In: Perrin, W.F. World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137107 on 2010-09-02
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