Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 290-304 : 296

Stenella attenuata (Gray, 1846) . Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Erebus” and "Terror,” 1:44.

TYPE LOCALITY: Unknown .

DISTRIBUTION: Tropical waters of Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans.

COMMENT: Includes frontalis, graffmani, and dubia ; see Rice, 1977:8. Includes malayana; see Perrin, 1975, Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. Univ. Calif., 21: 1 -206, but also see Rice, 1977:13. The taxonomy of the spotted dolphins (frontalis, dubia , attenuata , and plagiodon ) remains to be resolved (WFP). The presently recognized nominal forms (frontalis, attenuata , and plagiodon ) will probably prove to be two species of spotted dolphins; frontalis is probably conspecific with either attenuata (JGM) , or plagiodon (WFP) ; dubia (including asthenops and crotaphyscus), used by Hershkovitz, 1966:31, may belong to either of the two probable species (WFP and RLB; DWR; JGM). Hershkovitz, 1966:31, argued that dubia is a prior name for attenuata . See Hall, 1981:882-883, for additional discussion.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301411002013002001 as S. dubia .