Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846)

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 356

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154975

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Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846)
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Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846) View in CoL . 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 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Stenella

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