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Stenella frontalis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus frontalis was named by Cuvier (1829). It is extant. Its type locality is Boa Vista, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Cape Verde.

It was recombined as Stenella frontalis by Fraser (1950), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Rice (1998), Perrin (2002), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1817Delphinus (Delphinorhynchus) pernettensis Blainville p. 154
1820Delphinus (Delphinorhynchus) pernettyi Desmarest
1829Delphinus frontalis Cuvier p. 288
1836Delphinus froenatus Cuvier p. 155 figs. Plate 10, Fig. 10
1846Delphinus doris Gray p. 39
1846Delphinus frenatus Gray p. 39
1850Delphinus doris Gray p. 114
1850Delphinus frenatus Gray p. 115
1866Delphinus plagiodon Cope p. 296
1866Clymene doris Gray p. 214
1866Tursio doris Gray p. 255
1866Tursio frenatus Gray p. 256
1868Clymenia doris Gray p. 6
1904Prodelphinus plagiodon Trouessart p. 765
1904Prodelphinus frenatus Trouessart p. 766
1950Stenella frontalis Fraser p. 61
1952Stenella frontalis Sherman p. 99
1952Stenella plagiodon Sherman p. 99
1963Stenella frontalis Scheffer and Rice p. 6
1963Stenella plagiodon Scheffer and Rice p. 6
1966Stenella frontalis Hershkovitz p. 35
1998Stenella frontalis Rice p. 109
2002Stenella frontalis Perrin p. 1
2005Stenella frontalis Mead and Brownell p. 733
2008Stenella frontalis Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Stenella frontalis Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Stenella frontalis Jefferson p. 37

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyDelphininae
genusStenella()
speciesfrontalis(Cuvier 1829)

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 frontalis Cuvier 1829
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Invalid names: Delphinus (Delphinorhynchus) pernettyi Blainville 1817 [replaced], Delphinus doris Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus frenatus Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus froenatus Cuvier 1836 [synonym], Delphinus plagiodon Cope 1866 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available