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Stenella
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 reranked as Stenella by Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), 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) and Uhen et al. (2008); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus by Hassanin et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Steno by Gray (1866) and Palmer (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); 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) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Delphinidae by Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008) and Uhen et al. (2008).
It was reranked as Stenella by Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), 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) and Uhen et al. (2008); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus by Hassanin et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Steno by Gray (1866) and Palmer (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); 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) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Delphinidae by Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008) and Uhen et al. (2008).
Subtaxa
Clymene (Euphrosyne), S. clymene (syn. Delphinus metis, Clymenia normalis, Prodelphinus clymene, Clymene normalis), S. coeruleoalba (syn. Delphinus holbollii, Clymenia euphrosynoides, Clymene burmeisteri, Clymenia novaezelandiae, Prodelphinus petersii, Delphinus amphitriteus, Delphinus crotaphiscus, Delphinus asthenops), S. frontalis (syn. Delphinus frenatus, Delphinus plagiodon, Delphinus doris, Delphinus froenatus, Delphinus mediterraneus), S. kabatensis, S. longirostris (syn. Delphinus roseiventris, Clymenia alope, Delphinus microps), S. rayi
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1843 | Delphinus attenuatus Gray p. 105 |
| 1864 | Delphinus (Clymene) Gray p. 237 |
| 1866 | Steno (Stenella) Gray p. 213 |
| 1866 | Clymene Gray p. 214 |
| 1868 | Micropia Gray |
| 1868 | Clymenia Gray p. 6 |
| 1870 | Clymenia Gray p. 772 |
| 1871 | Clymenia Gill p. 95 |
| 1880 | Prodelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 604 |
| 1904 | Steno (Stenella) Palmer p. 644 |
| 1904 | Prodelphinus Trouessart p. 765 |
| 1912 | Prodelphinus Turner p. 137 |
| 1928 | Prodelphinus Weber p. 389 |
| 1934 | Fretidelphis Iredale and Troughton p. 65 |
| 1945 | Prodelphinus Simpson p. 103 |
| 1951 | Stenella Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 731 |
| 1960 | Stenella Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Stenella Scheffer and Rice p. 6 |
| 1966 | Stenella Hershkovitz p. 25 |
| 1973 | Stenella Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1977 | Stenella Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
| 1988 | Stenella Carroll |
| 1988 | Stenella de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1991 | Stenella Vidal p. 5 |
| 1997 | Stenella McKenna and Bell p. 385 |
| 1998 | Stenella Rice p. 107 |
| 1999 | Stenella LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Stenella Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2001 | Stenella Perrin p. 1 |
| 2002 | Stenella Perrin p. 1 |
| 2002 | Stenella Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2004 | Stenella Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2005 | Stenella Mead and Brownell p. 733 |
| 2008 | Stenella Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2008 | Stenella Uhen et al. p. 593 |
| 2008 | Stenella Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 222 |
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