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Stenella longirostris

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus longirostris was named by Gray (1828) [Type locality unknown (Hershkovitz, 1966).]. It is extant. Its type specimen is Leiden Museum, a skull.

It was recombined as Prodelphinus longirostris by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Pomatodelphis stenorhynchus by Allen (1921); it was recombined as Stenella longirostris by Gray (1828), Iredale and Troughton (1934), Sherman (1952), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Lal Mohan (1988), Vidal (1991), Perrin (1998), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Delphinus longirostris Gray p. 1
1828Stenella longirostris Gray p. 1
1832Delphinus longirostris Meyer p. 99
1846Delphinus longirostris Gray p. 42
1846Delphinus microps Gray p. 42
1846Delphinus roseiventris Wagner
1850Delphinus alope Gray p. 118
1850Delphinus longirostris Gray p. 125
1850Delphinus microps Gray p. 126
1866Delphinus longirostris Gray p. 213
1866Clymene alope Gray p. 214
1866Clymene microps Gray p. 214
1866Steno roseiventris Gray p. 232
1866Delphinus microps Gray p. 240
1866Delphinus longirostris Gray p. 241
1866Delphinus alope Gray p. 252
1866Delphinus stenorhynchus Gray p. 396
1868Delphinus longirostris Gray p. 5
1868Clymenia alope Gray p. 6
1868Clymenia microps Gray p. 6
1868Clymenia stenorhynchus Gray p. 6
1904Delphinus roseiventris Trouessart p. 765
1904Prodelphinus longirostris Trouessart p. 766
1934Stenella longirostris Iredale and Troughton p. 66
1952Stenella longirostris Sherman p. 100
1963Delphinus roseiventris Scheffer and Rice p. 6
1963Stenella longirostris Scheffer and Rice p. 6
1966Stenella longirostris Hershkovitz p. 37
1988Stenella longirostris Lal Mohan p. 93
1991Stenella longirostris Vidal p. 5
1998Stenella longirostris Perrin p. 1
1998Stenella longirostris Rice p. 109
2005Stenella longirostris Mead and Brownell p. 734
2008Stenella longirostris Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Stenella longirostris Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Stenella longirostris Jefferson p. 34

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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()
specieslongirostris(Gray 1828)

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.

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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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available