Steno bredanensis

(Lesson, 1828)

Rough-toothed Dolphin

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Mamm. Oiseaux, vol. 1, 206 Complement des oeuvres de Buffon, . . . , Complement 2, vol. 1, Cetaces, p. 206] Lesson, R.P. 1828. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mammifères et des oiseaux découverts depuis 1788 jusqe'a nos jours. Baudoin Frères, Paris, France.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61811650

Original name as described

Delphinus bredanensis

Other common names

Slopehead

Type material

Ghent MDV50426

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Paimpol, Coast of France.

Biogeographic realm

Marine

Country distribution

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

Subregion distribution

USA(AL,CA,FL,GA,HI,LA,MI,NC,SC,TX)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006441

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 compressus

(J. E. Gray, 1843)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

compressus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Type

BMNH:Mamm:346a

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/fbe473e6-67d4-462e-96e9-4f5f6e233ff3

Authority page

105

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53729768

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Name usages

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

Steno compressus

J. E. Gray, 1847

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

compressus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:346a

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/fbe473e6-67d4-462e-96e9-4f5f6e233ff3

Authority page

43

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6957474

Authority publication

London

Name usages

True (1885:588, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306382) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)

Delphinus bredanensis

(Lesson, 1828)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

bredanensis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

Ghent MDV50426

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

206

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61811650

Authority publication

Paris

Steno fuscus

J. E. Gray, 1847

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

fuscus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

44

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6957475

Authority publication

London

Name usages

True (1885:588, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306382) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)

Delphinus Reinwardtii

(Schlegel, 1841)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

reinwardtii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.31179, RMNH.MAM.31180

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.31179 https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.31180

Authority page

27

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16012280

Authority publication

Leiden

Delphinus (Steno) perspicillatus

(W. C. H. Peters, 1876)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

perspicillatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZMB 5097

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

360

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35329723

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

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

Steno perspicillatus

Lahille, 1899

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

perspicillatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

199

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147065

Authority publication

Primera Reunión del Congreso Científico Latino Americano

Name usages

Lahille (1899:199, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147065) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37834)

Steno bredanensis

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

bredanensis

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, 297) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  4. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:512) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #20738) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #20738) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006441) (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/20738/178929751) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Delphinus rostrata

(G. Cuvier, 1812)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

rostratus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

9

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3499189

Authority publication

Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

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

Delphinus rostratus

(A. G. Desmarest, 1817)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

rostratus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination · preoccupied

Authority page

160

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18037853

Authority publication

Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1827:409, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207876) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  2. Cuvier (1842:6, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518529) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60227)
  3. Lesson (1842:197) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  4. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)

Delphinus planiceps

(Schlegel, 1841)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

planiceps

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

27

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16012280

Authority publication

Leiden

Delphinus chamissonis

(Wiegmann, 1842)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

chamissonis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

pl. 359

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31078420

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Delphinus Chamissonis

(J. A. Wagner, 1846)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

chamissonis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

subsequent_usage

Authority page

366

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42534212

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Delphinus oxyrhynchus

(J. E. Gray, 1850)

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

oxyrhynchus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

notusedas_valid

Authority page

131

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12931778

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Steno bredaensis

Trouessart, 1898

Family

Delphinidae

Root name

bredaensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

unjustified_emendation

Authority page

1028

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53436241

Authority publication

Berlin

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