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 attenuata (Gray, 1846)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Steno Gray, 1846

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stenella*	Gray, 1866	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Afrikaans: gevlekte dolfyn

English: Cape dolphin; Graffman's dolphin; kiko (in Hawaii); narrow-snouted dolphin; pantropical spotted dolphin; slender dolphin; slender-beaked dolphin; spotted dolphin; spotted porpoise; spotter sources: Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood and M.A. Webber. 1993. Marine mammals of the world. FAO Species Identification Guide. Rome. 312 p.;Shirihai, H. (2002). A complete guide to Antarctic Wildlife: the Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean. Alula Press FI 510 pp.

French: dauphin tacheté pantropical

German: Schlankdelfin; schlanker Delphin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Hawaiian: kiko

Hebrew: סטנלה ברודה * sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Japanese: arari iruka; マダライルカ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Korean: jeombagi-dolgorae

Lithuanian: dėmėtasis prodelfinas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Malagasy: lambondriaka pentimpetina

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

Portuguese: golfinho pintado dos tropicos; golfinho pintado pantropical

Russian: pyatnistyi delfin

Slovenian: vitki progasti delfin sources: Davorin Tome

Spanish, Castillian: bufeo manchado; delfin de antifaz; delfín manchado pantropical; delfín manchado tropical; delfín moteado; delfín pintado; estenela moteada; estenela moteado pantropical; tonino pintado sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Thai: plaloma lai chut

Turkish: pantropik benekli yunusu sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Дельфін Атенуата; Продельфін атенуата

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	Perrin, W. F., E. D. Mitchell, J. G. Mead, D. K. Caldwell, P. J. H. van Bree and W. H. Dawbin. (1987). Revision of the spotted dolphins, Stenella spp. Marine Mammal Science 3:99--170.
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	Perrin, W. F. (2001). Stenella attenuata. Mammalian Species 683:1--8.
additional source	Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (246): 1-259.
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	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
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 attenuata (Gray, 1846). 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:137105