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Stenella clymene
Taxonomy
Delphinus clymene was named by Gray (1850) [Type locality unknown (Hershkovitz, 1966).]. It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 350a, a skull (skull).
It was synonymized subjectively with Clymenia normalis by Gray (1868); it was recombined as Stenella clymene by Hershkovitz (1966), Rice (1998), Jefferson and Curry (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Clymenia normalis by Gray (1868); it was recombined as Stenella clymene by Hershkovitz (1966), Rice (1998), Jefferson and Curry (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1850 | Delphinus clymene Gray p. 115 |
| 1866 | Clymene normalis Gray p. 214 |
| 1866 | Delphinus clymene Gray p. 249 |
| 1868 | Clymenia normalis Gray p. 6 |
| 1871 | Clymenia normalis Gray p. 70 |
| 1873 | Delphinus clymene Scott p. 79 |
| 1889 | Prodelphinus clymene Lutken p. 41 |
| 1898 | Prodelphinus normalis Trouessart p. 1036 |
| 1966 | Stenella clymene Hershkovitz p. 26 |
| 1998 | Stenella clymene Rice p. 110 |
| 2003 | Stenella clymene Jefferson and Curry p. 1 |
| 2005 | Stenella clymene Mead and Brownell p. 732 |
| 2008 | Stenella clymene Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2013 | Stenella clymene Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2021 | Stenella clymene Jefferson p. 39 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Stenella clymene Gray 1850
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Invalid names: Clymene normalis Gray 1866 [synonym], Clymenia normalis Gray 1868 [synonym], Prodelphinus clymene Lutken 1889 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004 | |||||