Stenella clymene

(J. E. Gray, 1850)

Clymene Dolphin

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Whippomorpha
Infraorder : Cetacea
Parvorder : Odontoceti
Superfamily : Delphinoidea
Family : Delphinidae
Subfamily : Delphininae
Genus : Stenella

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gray, J.E. 1850. Catalogue of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Cetacea. British Museum, British Museum Catalogue, 153 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12931762

Original name as described

Delphinus Clymene

Other common names

Atlantic Spinner Dolphin · Helmet Dolphin · Senegal Dolphin · Short-snouted Spinner Dolphin

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:350a

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

type locality unknown.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

Angola · Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Brazil · Cape Verde · Cameroon · Cayman Islands · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Curaçao · Cote d'Ivoire · Dominica · Gabon · Gambia · Ghana · Grenada · Guinea · Honduras · Jamaica · Mauritania · Mexico · Puerto Rico · Saint Helena · Sint Maarten · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Senegal · Sierra Leone · United States · Venezuela · Benin · Equatorial Guinea · Liberia · Nigeria · Togo · Anguilla? · Aruba? · Bermuda? · Colombia? · Costa Rica? · Cuba? · Dominican Republic? · French Guiana? · Guadeloupe? · Guatemala? · Guinea-Bissau? · Guyana? · Haiti? · Martinique? · Montserrat? · Nicaragua? · Panama? · Saint Kitts and Nevis? · Saint Lucia? · São Tomé and Príncipe? · Suriname? · Trinidad and Tobago? · Turks and Caicos Islands? · British Virgin Islands? · United States Virgin Islands?

Subregion distribution

USA(FL,TX?,NJ?)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006437

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Delphinus Metis

(J. E. Gray, 1847)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

metis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Type

BMNH:Mamm:350a

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

39

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6957470

Authority publication

London

Name usages

Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Delphinus Clymene

(J. E. Gray, 1850)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

clymene

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:350a

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

115

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12931762

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Clymene normalis

(J. E. Gray, 1866)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

normalis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

BMNH:Mamm:350a

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

214

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28627686

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Stenella clymene

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

clymene

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

109

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:109) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:296) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  4. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:549) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  5. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:510) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20730) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20730) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006437) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:60) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/20730/50373865) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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