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Stenella attenuata

Description

Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846). Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Erebus" and "Terror", 1:44.

TYPE LOCALITY: None given, unknown (possibly India, see Gray, 1843).

DISTRIBUTION: Worldwide: temperate to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: albirostratus, brevimanus, capensis, consimilis, graffmani, malayanus, pseudodelphis, punctata, velox.

COMMENTS: Perrin et al. (1987) revised this species. D. dubius is a nomen nudum (sic dubium] (Perrin et al., 1987). Opinion 1660 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1991) conserved attenuata Gray, 1846 and suppressed velox Cuvier, 1839, pseudodelphis Schlegel, 1841, and brevimanus Wagner, 1846.

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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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Stenella
Species
attenuata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993