Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Stenella coeruleoalba

Description

Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833). Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Nat. Curios., 16(2):609, pl. 43.

TYPE LOCALITY: "an der östlichen Küste von Südamerika; wir karpunirten ihn in der Gegend des Rio de la Plata." (= South Atlantic Ocean near Rio de la Plata, off coast of Argentina and Uruguay).

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: cold-temperate to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: asthenops, crotaphiscus, euphrosyne, styx, tethyos.

COMMENTS: See Mitchell (1970:720). Perrin et al. (1981, 1987) gave a revised synonymy of this species.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 356, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Stenella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Meyen
Species
coeruleoalba
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993