Stenella longirostris

(J. E. Gray, 1828)

Spinner 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. 1828. Spicilegia Zoologica; or original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. Part I. Treuttel, Wurtz, and Co., London, 8 pp.

Authority publication link

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjskjwff

Original name as described

Delphinus longirostris

Other common names

Long-beaked Dolphin · Long-snouted Dolphin · Pantropical Spinner Dolphin · Gray's Spinner Dolphin · Central American Spinner Dolphin · Eastern Spinner Dolphin · Dwarf Spinner Dolphin

Type material

RMNH.MAM.8676

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.8676

Type locality

no type locality given. Later designated by J. E. Gray in 1850 to "Inhab. Southern Ocean."

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

American Samoa · Angola · Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Australia · Bahamas · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Belize · Bermuda · Bonaire · Sint Eustatius · Saba · Brazil · Brunei · Cape Verde · Cambodia · Cayman Islands · China · Cocos Islands · Colombia · Comoros · Cook Islands · Costa Rica · Cuba · Curaçao · Cote d'Ivoire · Djibouti · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · Galápagos Islands · Egypt · El Salvador · Eritrea · Fiji · French Guiana · French Polynesia · Ghana · Guam · Guatemala · Guinea · Honduras · India · Andaman and Nicobar Islands · Indonesia · Iran · Israel · Jamaica · Japan · Jordan · Kenya · Kiribati · Kuwait · Liberia · Madagascar · Malaysia · Maldives · Marshall Islands · Martinique · Mauritania · Mauritius · Mexico · Micronesia · Mozambique · Myanmar · New Caledonia · New Zealand · Nicaragua · Niue · Northern Marianas · Oman · Christmas Island · Pakistan · Palau · Panama · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines · Puerto Rico · Réunion · Saint Helena · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Sint Maarten · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Samoa · Saudi Arabia · Senegal · Seychelles · Singapore · Solomon Islands · Somalia · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Sudan · Suriname · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · East Timor · Tonga · Trinidad and Tobago · Tuvalu · United Arab Emirates · United States · Uruguay · Vanuatu · Venezuela · Vietnam · British Virgin Islands · United States Virgin Islands · Wallis and Futuna · Yemen · Barbados? · Benin? · Cameroon? · Republic of the Congo? · Democratic Republic of the Congo? · Equatorial Guinea? · Gabon? · Gambia? · Grenada? · Guadeloupe? · Guinea-Bissau? · Guyana? · Haiti? · Iraq? · North Korea? · South Korea? · Montserrat? · Morocco? · Namibia? · Nauru? · Nigeria? · Pitcairn? · São Tomé and Príncipe? · Sierra Leone? · Togo? · Tokelau? · Turks and Caicos Islands?

Subregion distribution

USA(HI,FL,LA?,TX?,SC?,NC?)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006440

Country distribution map

The map below provides a general overview. Most species inhabit only specific regions within countries. Known distribution is shown in green and predicted distribution is in yellow. Hover over the highlighted regions to see the country name.

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 Alope

(J. E. Gray, 1850)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

alope

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1847.7.6.2

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/270688c8-4a0d-4158-b05e-244e4289ab2c https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e6d4a87f-daed-43cd-a280-393b9011315a

Authority page

118

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12931765

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Name usages

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

Delphinus stenorhynchus

(J. E. Gray, 1866)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

stenorhynchus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1850.6.5.9 (= BMNH:Mamm:1471a)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/41172290-6880-46a7-9a0c-047bbb17a9cc https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/87361323-148a-46c5-97b6-91913b9fe4dc

Authority page

396

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9730141

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Delphinus microps

(J. E. Gray, 1847)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

microps

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:349a

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/b7688914-d23a-4362-8ad2-fea054b2fd05

Authority page

42

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6957473

Authority publication

London

Name usages

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

Delphinus longirostris

(J. E. Gray, 1828)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

longirostris

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.8676

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.8676

Authority page

1

Authority publication

London

Stenella longirostris orientalis

Perrin, 1990

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

orientalis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

SDNHM:MAM:21427

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/sdnhm/mammals?id=urn-catalog-sdnhm-mammals-21427

Authority page

457

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34591914

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

  1. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  2. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)

Stenella longirostris centroamericana

Perrin, 1990

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

centroamericana

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:395933

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/340ee817f-d187-4ae9-9c80-295f23d8c1e3

Authority page

461

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34591918

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

  1. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  2. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)

Prodelphinus longirostris

(Lahille, 1899)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

longirostris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

200

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147066

Authority publication

Primera Reunión del Congreso Científico Latino Americano

Name usages

Lahille (1899:200, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147066) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37834)

Stenella longirostris

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

longirostris

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. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20733) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20733) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006440) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:61) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/20733/156927622) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Stenella longirostris longirostris

Mead & Brownell, 2005

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

longirostris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  2. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)

Stenella longirostris roseiventris

Mittermeier & D. E. Wilson, 2014

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

roseiventris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

511

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:511) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)

Delphinus roseiventris

(J. A. Wagner, 1846)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

roseiventris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

pl. 360 (fig. 1)

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31078422

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Name usages

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

Prodelphis longirostris kunitomoi

(T. Ogawa, 1950)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

kunitomoi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

73, 85

Authority publication

Tokyo

Stenella Longirostris Kunitomoi

Nishiwaki, 1957

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

kunitomoi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

151

Authority publication

Tokyo

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