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.