Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass 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

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stenella*	Gray, 1866	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Graffman's dolphin; kiko; 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 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

Israel (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

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

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

Portuguese: golfinho pintado pantropical

Russian: pyatnistyi delfin

Slovenian: vitki progasti delfin sources: Davorin Tome

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

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

Ukrainian: Дельфін Атенуата; Продельфін атенуата

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1846). Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 1(Mammalia):48, pl. 1, fig. 1 (baleen).
basis of record	Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 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.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4.
additional source	Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259.
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	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	The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2008.
additional source	Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam.
additional source	King, C. (2009). Terrestrial mammals (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
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.

Genbank

External Links

Link To GBIF

Citation

Perrin, W. (2012). Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846). In: Perrin, W.F. (2012) World Cetacea Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137105