Stenella clymene

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Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CETACEA

Family:

DELPHINIDAE

Scientific Name:

Stenella clymene

Species Authority:

(Gray, 1846)

Common Name/s:

English	—	ATLANTIC SPINNER DOLPHIN, CLYMENE DOLPHIN, HELMET DOLPHIN
French	—	DAUPHIN DE CLYMÈNE
Spanish	—	DELFÍN CLYMENE

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

DD ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Cetacean Specialist Group

Justification:

Extract from Reeves et al. (2003, pp. 45): "This species occurs in deep tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea but not the Mediterranean. It is not considered abundant anywhere. There are an estimated 5,000–6,000 Clymene Dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Waring et al. 2001). Clymene Dolphins are harpooned at least occasionally by fishermen in the Lesser Antilles, and they are sometimes caught in fishing gear elsewhere. The only area in which a significant bycatch is thought to occur is in the eastern tropical Atlantic, where, according to unconfirmed sources, significant numbers may be taken in tuna purse seines (T. Jefferson, pers. comm.). This situation merits closer investigation."

History:

1994

Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Benin; Brazil; Cameroon; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Equatorial Guinea; French Guiana; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Liberia; Mexico; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Suriname; Togo; United States; Venezuela

FAO Marine Fishing Areas:

Native:

Atlantic-eastern central; Atlantic-northwest; Atlantic-southeast; Atlantic-southwest; Atlantic-western central

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Marine

List of Habitats:

10.1	Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Threats

List of Threats:

4.1.1.2	Accidental mortality - Bycatch - Fisheries-related - Netting (ongoing)
4.1.1.3	Accidental mortality - Bycatch - Fisheries-related - Entanglement (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Reeves, R.R., Smith, B.D., Crespo, E.A. and di Sciara, G.N. (compilers) 2003. Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002-2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans. IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Waring, G.T., Quintal, J.M. and Swartz, S.L. (eds). 2001. U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal stock assessments – 2001. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-168. 310pp.

Citation:	Cetacean Specialist Group 1996. Stenella clymene. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 August 2008.
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