Stenella frontalis (G. Cuvier, 1829)

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.7154981

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scientific name

Stenella frontalis (G. Cuvier, 1829)
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Stenella frontalis (G. Cuvier, 1829) View in CoL . Règne Anim., Nouv. ed., 1:288.

TYPE LOCALITY: "découvert un aux îles du Cap-Vert ". (= off Cape Verde Islands, West Africa) .

DISTRIBUTION: Atlantic Ocean including the Gulf of Mexico: warm-temperate to tropical waters.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: doris , froenatus , plagiodon .

COMMENTS: Perrin et al. (1987) revised this species. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1977a) suppressed D. pernettensis de Blainville, 1817 and D. pernettyi Desmarest, 1820 , which Hershkovitz (1966a) used as a senior synonym for S. plagiodon .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Stenella

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