Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850) 
AphiaID: 137106

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Delphinidae > Stenella

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] German Clymene-Delfin  [details] Italian stenella Climene  [details] Lithuanian Klimenio delfinas  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Βραχύρυγχο περιστροφικό δελφίνι  [details] Polish stenella nadobna  [details] Portuguese golfinho Climene  [details] Portuguese golfinho de Clymene  [details] Spanish delfin celador  [details] Spanish delfín Clímene  [details] Spanish delfín Clymene  [details] Spanish delfin de yelmo  [details] Spanish delfín tornillo del Atlántico  [details] Spanish delfin tornillo hocico corto  [details] Spanish delfin volteador hocico corto  [details] Spanish estenela giradora de rostro corto  [details] Spanish estenela giradora del Atlantico  [details] Turkish Atlantik dönücü yunusu  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Central Atlantic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI 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
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137106
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 clymene (Gray, 1850). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137106 on 2013-05-26