Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Alternative combination: Delphinus clymene

Synonyms: Clymene normalis Gray 1866, Clymenia normalis Gray 1868, Prodelphinus clymene Lutken 1889, Prodelphinus normalis Gray 1866

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1850. Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea 1-153

Belongs to Stenella according to T. A. Jefferson 2021

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Gray 1850, Gray 1866, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1871, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson and Curry 2003, Mead and Brownell 2005, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998, Scott 1873 and Trouessart 1898

Sister taxa: Delphinus attenuatus, Stenella attenuata, Stenella coeruleoalba, Stenella dubia, Stenella frontalis, Stenella longirostris, Stenella rayi

Type specimens:

• Stenella clymene: BMNH 350a, a skull (skull)
• Clymene normalis:
• Clymenia normalis:
• Prodelphinus clymene:

Distribution: found only at Jewfish Key, Longboat Key (Quaternary of Florida)

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