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Stenella clymene

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

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).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Delphinus clymene Gray p. 115
1866Clymene normalis Gray p. 214
1866Delphinus clymene Gray p. 249
1868Clymenia normalis Gray p. 6
1889Prodelphinus clymene Lutken p. 41
1898Prodelphinus normalis Trouessart p. 1036
1966Stenella clymene Hershkovitz p. 26
1998Stenella clymene Rice p. 110
2003Stenella clymene Jefferson and Curry p. 1
2005Stenella clymene Mead and Brownell p. 732
2008Stenella clymene Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Stenella clymene Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Stenella clymene Jefferson p. 39

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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()
speciesclymene()

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