Species: Stenella coeruleoalba

Striped Dolphin
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Mammalia

    Order

    Cetacea

    Family

    Delphinidae

    Genus

    Stenella

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Estenela Listada - dauphin bleu
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Whales and Dolphins
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae - Stenella - Two stocks may be present in the eastern tropical Pacific, with a distributional break between about 10 and 17 degrees north latitude (see Baird et al. 1993).
    Habitat Type Description
    Marine
    Migration
    false - true - true - In the western Pacific, makes seasonal migrations between pelagic and coastal areas; summers in pelagic waters, winters apparently in East China Sea (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983).
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    true
    Food Comments
    Diet mainly various mesopelagic fishes, as well as shrimp and squid (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983). Feeding depth may extend below 200 m (see IUCN 1991).
    Reproduction Comments
    In the western Pacific, mating peaks in winter, spring, and possibly late summer; gestation lasts about 1 year; adult females produce single calf every 3 years; weaning completed at about 1.5 years; sexual maturity in 5-9 years, though newly mature males may not mate.
    Ecology Comments
    Gregarious; commonly in groups of a few hundred, sometimes in herds of several thousand; group size in the Atlantic apparently tends to be smaller than that in the Pacific (IUCN 1991); groups are segregated by age class (Leatherwood and Reeves 1983, IUCN 1991).
    Length
    270
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1996-11-15
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-11-15
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    Tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate oceans. Reportedly the most common cetacean in Mediterranean Sea. Proposed discrete stocks: one off South Africa, one or two in the eastern tropical Pacific, and another in the western North Pacific (see IUCN 1991). Widely distributed and relatively common.
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