Order Cetacea
Author
James G. Mead
Author
Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
349
364
book chapter
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Stenella frontalis
(G. Cuvier, 1829)
.
Règne Anim., Nouv. ed., 1:288
.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
"découvert un aux îles du
Cap-Vert
". (= off
Cape Verde
Islands, West Africa)
.
DISTRIBUTION: Atlantic Ocean including the
Gulf
of
Mexico
: warm-temperate to tropical waters.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.
SYNONYMS:
doris
,
froenatus
,
plagiodon
.
COMMENTS: Perrin et al. (1987) revised this species. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1977a) suppressed
D. pernettensis
de Blainville, 1817
and
D. pernettyi
Desmarest, 1820
, which Hershkovitz (1966a) used as a senior synonym for
S. plagiodon
.