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Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829) 
AphiaID: 137108

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 doris Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Clymenia doris Gray, 1868 (synonym)
Clymenia fraenata Flower, 1884 (synonym)
Clymenia frontalis Flower, 1884 (synonym)
Delphinus doris Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Delphinus fraenatus F. Cuvier, 1836 (synonym)
Delphinus frenatus Gray, 1846 (synonym)
Delphinus frontalis G. Cuvier, 1829 (basionym)
Delphinus plagiodon Cope, 1866 (synonym)
Prodelphinus doris True, 1885 (synonym)
Prodelphinus fraenatus H. Gervais in Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym)
Prodelphinus froenatus True, 1889 (synonym)
Prodelphinus frontalis Gervais, in Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym)
Prodelphinus obscurus Lutken, 1889 (synonym)
Prodelphinus plagiodon True, 1885 (synonym)
Stenella pernettensis (suppressed)
Stenella pernettensis plagiodon Hall, 1981 (synonym)
Stenella plagiodon Kellogg, 1940 (synonym)
Tursio doris Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Tursio fraenatus Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406.
page(s): 288 [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: 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: 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: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

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

additional source: Perrin, W. F., E. D. Mitchell, J. G. Mead, D. K. Caldwell, P. J. H. van Bree and W. H. Dawbin. (1987). Revision of the spotted dolphins, Stenella spp. Marine Mammal Science 3:99--170. [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F. (2002). Stenella frontalis. Mammalian Species 702:1--6. [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 
Dutch gevlekte dolfijn  [details]
English Atlantic spotted dolphin  [details]
English bridled dolphin  [details]
English bridled porpoise  [details]
English Cape dolphin  [details]
English Cuvier's porpoise  [details]
English gamin  [details]
English Gulf Stream spotted dolphin  [details]
English long-snouted dolphin  [details]
English narrow-snouted dolphin  [details]
French dauphin bridé  [details]
French dauphin tacheté de l'Atlantique  [details]
German Atlantischer Fleckendelfin  [details]
German Zügeldelfin  [details]
Italian stenella maculata atlantica  [details]
Lithuanian didžiakaktis prodelfinas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Στικτοδέλφινο του Ατλαντικού  [details]
Polish stenella plamiasta  [details]
Portuguese golfinho pintado do Atlantico  [details]
Russian уздечковый продельфин  [details]
Slovenian atlantski progasti delfin  [details]
Spanish delfín embridado  [details]
Spanish delfín oceánico  [details]
Spanish delfin pardo  [details]
Spanish delfín pintado  [details]
Spanish estenela moteada de Cope  [details]
Spanish estenela moteado del Atlantico  [details]
Spanish prodelfin  [details]
Turkish Atlantik benekli yunusu  [details]
Ukrainian Продельфін вуздечковий  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (282 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Cape Cod to South America [details]

Habitat: tropical to warm temperate, mostly offshore over continental shelf [details]

Holotype: Mounted skin and skull, no. CGZ 25 (skin) in Zoothéque (Paris), CAC A.3035 - CAG BII/86 (skull) in Laboratoire d'Anatomie comparée du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris). Collected by J. J. Dussumier in 1825.  [details]

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

Type locality: Near the Cape Verde Islands in the North Atlantic, at about 15 degrees N latitude, 24 degrees W longitude. [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 38)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 38)
added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:42:02

Stenella frontalis
Stenella frontalis
added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-06 21:58:20

Stenella frontalis
Stenella frontalis
added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-06 21:58:48
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137108
Taxonomic
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. (2013). Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137108 on 2013-05-22
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