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Stenella

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Steno (Stenella) was named by Gray (1866) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m T Plio Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Hassanin et al. (2012).

It was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus by Hassanin et al. (2012); it was reranked as Stenella by Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Kasuya (1973), Barnes (1977), de Muizon (1988), Carroll (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), LeDuc et al. (1999), Perrin (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Perrin (2002), Sepkoski (2002), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Perrin et al. (2013), Murakami et al. (2014), Manganelli and Benocci (2014) and Marx et al. (2016).

It was assigned to Steno by Gray (1866) and Palmer (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Delphinidae by Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Murakami et al. (2014) and Manganelli and Benocci (2014); and to Delphininae by Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Perrin (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Perrin (2002), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1812Delphinus dubius Cuvier
1829Delphinus dubius Fischer p. 506
1843Delphinus attenuatus Gray p. 105
1850Delphinus dubius Gray p. 119
1852Delphinus dubius Gervais p. 150
1864Delphinus (Clymene) Gray p. 237
1866Steno (Stenella) Gray p. 213
1866Clymene Gray p. 214
1866Clymene (Euphrosyne) Gray p. 214
1866Delphinus dubius Gray p. 253
1866Delphinus punctatus Gray p. 398 figs. Figure 101
1868Micropia Gray
1868Clymenia Gray p. 6
1870Clymenia Gray p. 772
1872Clymenia Gill p. 95
1880Prodelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 604
1904Steno (Stenella) Palmer p. 644
1904Prodelphinus Trouessart p. 765
1904Prodelphinus dubius Trouessart p. 766
1912Prodelphinus Turner p. 137
1921Prodelphinus Winge p. 36
1928Prodelphinus Weber p. 389
1934Fretidelphis Iredale and Troughton p. 65
1945Prodelphinus Simpson p. 103
1951Stenella Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 731
1952Stenella Sherman p. 99
1960Stenella Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Stenella Scheffer and Rice p. 6
1966Stenella Hershkovitz p. 25
1966Stenella dubia Hershkovitz p. 31
1973Stenella Kasuya p. 61
1977Stenella Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1988Stenella Carroll
1988Stenella de Muizon p. 162
1991Stenella Vidal p. 5
1997Stenella McKenna and Bell p. 385
1998Stenella Rice p. 107
1999Stenella LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Stenella Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2001Stenella Perrin p. 1
2002Stenella Perrin p. 1
2002Stenella Sepkoski
2004Stenella Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005Stenella Mead and Brownell p. 733
2008Stenella Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2008Stenella Uhen et al. p. 593
2008Stenella Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 222
2013Stenella Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2014Stenella Manganelli and Benocci p. 107
2014Stenella Murakami et al. p. 492 figs. Table 1
2016Stenella Marx et al. p. 140

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyDelphininae
genusStenella()

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.

G. Stenella Gray 1866
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Stenella attenuata Gray 1846 [pantropical spotted dolphin]
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Invalid names: Clymene punctata Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus albirostratus Peale 1848 [synonym], Delphinus brevimanus Wagner 1846 [synonym], Delphinus microbrachium Gray 1850 [synonym], Delphinus pseudodelphis Wiegmann 1840 [synonym], Delphinus velox Cuvier 1829 [synonym], Prodelphinus graffmani Lonnberg 1934 [synonym], Steno capensis Gray 1866 [synonym], Steno consimilis Malm 1871 [synonym]
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]
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Invalid names: Clymene burmeisteri Malm 1871 [synonym], Clymenia euphrosynoides Gray 1868 [synonym], Clymenia novaezelandiae Hector 1873 [synonym], Delphinus amphitriteus Philippi 1893 [synonym], Delphinus asthenops Cope 1865 [synonym], Delphinus crotaphiscus Cope 1865 [synonym], Delphinus euphrosyne Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus holbollii Nilsson 1847 [synonym], Delphinus lateralis Peale 1848 [synonym], Delphinus marginatus Duvernoy 1857 [synonym], Delphinus mediterraneus Loche 1860 [synonym], Delphinus styx Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus tethyos Gervais 1853 [synonym], Tursio dorcides Gray 1866 [synonym]
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]
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Invalid names: Clymenia alope Gray 1850 [synonym], Delphinus microps Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus roseiventris Wagner 1846 [synonym], Delphinus stenorhynchus Gray 1866 [synonym]
Stenella rayi Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Invalid names: Clymenia Gray 1864 [synonym], Delphinus attenuatus Gray 1843 [nomen nudum], Euphrosyne Gray 1866 [synonym], Fretidelphis Iredale and Troughton 1934 [synonym], Micropia Gray 1868 [synonym], Prodelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Stenella dubia Cuvier 1812 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available