Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828) 
AphiaID: 137109

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 alope Gray, 1866 (synonym) Clymene microps Gray, 1866 (synonym) Clymene stenorhynchus Gray, 1866 (synonym) Clymenia alope Gray, 1868 (synonym) Clymenia longirostris Flower, 1884 (synonym) Clymenia microps Gray, 1871 (synonym) Clymenia roseiventris Flower, 1884 (synonym) Clymenia stenorhynchus Gray, 1868 (synonym) Delphinus alope Gray, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus longirostris Gray, 1828 (basionym) Delphinus microps Gray, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus roseiventris Wagner, 1846 (synonym) Delphinus stenorhynchus Gray, 1866 (synonym) Fretidelphis roseiventris Iredale & Troughton, 1934 (synonym) Prodelphinus alope Flower, 1885 (synonym) Prodelphinus longirostris Flower, 1885 (synonym) Prodelphinus microps Flower, 1885 (synonym) Prodelphinus roseiventris Gervais in Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 (synonym) Stenella alope Fraser, 1950 (synonym) Stenella microps Miller & Kellogg, 1955 (synonym) Steno roseiventris Gray, 1866 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Gray J.E. (1828). Original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Spicilegia Zoologica Part 1. page(s): 1 [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: 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. (1998). Stenella longirostris. Mammalian Species 599:1--7. [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   Afrikaans toldolfyn  [details] Cebuano lumba lumba  [details] Dutch langsnuitdolfijn  [details] English Central American spinner  [details] English dwarf spinner dolphin  [details] English eastern spinner  [details] English Gray's spinner  [details] English long-beaked dolphin  [details] English long-nosed dolphin  [details] English long-snouted spinner dolphin  [details] English red-bellied dolphin  [details] English rollover  [details] English small-headed dolphin  [details] English spinner  [details] English spinner dolphin  [details] English spinner porpoise  [details] English whitebelly spinner  [details] French dauphin longirostre  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba paruh panjang  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba peruh panjang  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba perut marah  [details] Japanese hashinaga iruka  [details] Korean ginburi-dolgorae  [details] Portuguese golfinho rotador  [details] Russian dlinnonosyi delfin  [details] Russian vertyashchiysya delfin  [details] Southern Balochi tishuk  [details] Spanish churumbeles  [details] Spanish delfín churumbelo  [details] Spanish delfin de hocico largo  [details] Spanish delfín girador  [details] Spanish delfín tornillon  [details] Spanish delfin volteador  [details] Spanish estenela giradora  [details] Spanish falso delfin  [details] Spanish tornillos  [details] Thai plaloma huakhuadmalayu  [details] Thai plaloma kradod  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Stenella longirostris centroamericana Perrin, 1990 Subspecies Stenella longirostris longirostris (Gray, 1828) Subspecies Stenella longirostris orientalis Perrin, 1990 Subspecies Stenella longirostris roseiventris (Perrin, Dolar & Robineau, 1999 Wagner, 1846) Subspecies Stenella longirostris kunitomoi Nishiwaki, 1957 (nomen nudum)
Environment		marine
Distribution		Comores [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Pacific Ocean [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (405 nucleotides; 124 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: Oceanic tropical and subtropical zones in both hemispheres. Limits are near 40ºN and 40ºS. [details] Holotype: According to Hershkovitz (1966), "Skull only, originally in the Joshua Brookes Museum, now in the Leiden Museum [Netherlands]." [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Unknown [details]
Images		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 00:46:45 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 40) 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 00:46:55 Stenella longirostris added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:47:05 Spinner dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific added on 2009-03-18 - author: Howard Goldstein, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-18 16:47:21 Central American spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris centroamericana) added on 2009-03-18 - author: Howard Goldstein, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-18 16:50:30 School of spinner dolphins (whitebelly form) in the eastern tropical Pacific added on 2009-03-18 - author: Howard Goldstein, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-18 16:53:06 3 forms of spinner dolphin in the Pacific: Gray's (S. l. longirostris),top; eastern (S. l. orientalis), bottom; and intermediate whitebelly form, middle. added on 2009-03-18 - author: William Perrin, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-18 16:56:52 Gray's spinner dolphins (S. l. longirostris) added on 2009-03-18 - author: Robert Pitman, NOAA Fisheries () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-18 17:07:15 Eastern spinner dolphins (S. l. orientalis) in the eastern tropical Pacific. Note forward-canted dorsal fin and ventral hump on adult male. added on 2009-03-18 - author: William High, NOAA Fisheries qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-18 17:20:37 Stenella longirostris added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked Stenella longirostris added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137109
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 longirostris (Gray, 1828). 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=137109 on 2013-05-21