Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Class Mammalia > Subclass Theria > Order Cetartiodactyla > Suborder Cetancodonta > Infraorder Cetacea > Superfamily Odontoceti > Family Delphinidae > Genus Stenella

Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Delphinus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stenella*	Gray, 1866	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Clymene dolphin; helmet dolphin; short-snouted spinner dolphin sources: van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: dauphin de Clyméné

German: Clymene-Delfin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Βραχύρυγχο περιστροφικό δελφίνι sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: stenella Climene sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: Klimenio delfinas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: stenella nadobna sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: golfinho Climene; golfinho de Clymene

Spanish, Castillian: delfin celador; delfín Clímene; delfín Clymene; delfin de yelmo; delfín tornillo del Atlántico; delfin tornillo hocico corto; delfin volteador hocico corto; estenela giradora de rostro corto; estenela giradora del Atlantico sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: Atlantik dönücü yunusu

Literature

basis of record	Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. In Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. 723--743.
additional source	Schmidly, D. J. and B. Würsig. 2009. Mammals (Vertebrata: Mammalia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1343–1352 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Culik, B. (2000). Convention on Migratory Species: Whales and Dolphins.
additional source	Fertl, D., T.A. Jefferson, I.B. Moreno, A.N. Zerbini, and K.D. Mullin. 2003. Distribution of the Clymene dolphin Stenella clymene. Mammal Review 33(3-4): 253-271.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A. and B. E. Curry. (2003). Stenella clymene. Mammalian Species 726:1--5.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 4.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Perrin, W.F.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

Citation

Fordyce, E.; Perrin, W.F. (2025). World Cetacea Database. Stenella clymene (Gray, 1850). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137106