Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [37] (see for extralimital synonyms)

Generic Combinations

• Stenella longirostris (J.E. Gray, 1828).

Introduction

According to Jackson & Grove (2015), the subspecies are in need of revision.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal in tropical waters.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, W oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, oceanic, pelagic, piscivore, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Diet mainly small fish and squid.

General References

Bannister, J.L., Kemper, C.M. & Warneke, R.M. 1996. The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans. Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency 242 pp.

Bryden, M.M. 1978. Whales and whaling in Queensland waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 89: v-xviii

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [373]

Leatherwood, S. & Reeves, R.R. 1983. The Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins. San Francisco : Sierra Club Books xviii 302 pp.

Paterson, R.A. 1994. An annotated list of recent additions to the cetacean collection in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35: 217-223

Perrin, W. 2003. Marine Mammal Encyclopaedia. San Diego : Academic Press.

Perrin, W.F., Aquino, T.M., Louella, M., Dolar, L. & Moonyeen, N.R. 2007. External appearance of the Dwarf Spinner Dolphin Stenella longirostris roseiventris. Marine Mammal Science 23(2): 464-467

Perrin, W.F., Dolar, M.L.L. & Robineau, D. 1999. Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) of the western Pacific and Southeast Asia: pelagic and shallow-water forms. Marine Mammal Science 15: 1029–1053

Porter, L. & Chilvers, B.L. 2004. Small Cetacean Surveys of the Timor Sea. Final Report to the Department of the Environment and Heritage. Canberra : Australian Commonwealth Government.

Watson, L. 1981. Sea Guide to Whales of the World. London : Hutchinson 302 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Long-snouted Spinner Dolphin, Spinner Dolphin)

History of changes

• Delphinus longirostris Gray, E.J. 1828. Spicilegia Zoologica; or original figures and short systematic descriptions of new and unfigured animals. London : Treuttel, Wurtz & Co. Part 1 8 pp., pls. I-VI. [1].

  Secondary source:

   Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [373].

Introduction

According to Jackson & Groves (2015), the subspecies is in need of revision.

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, oceanic, pelagic, piscivore, predator.

General References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [373]

History of changes

• Delphinus roseiventris Wagner, J.A. 1846. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Eine Zusammenstellung der neuesten Entdeckungen auf dem Gebiete der Säugthierkunde. Theil 7. Leipzig : T.O. Weigel.

Introduction

Previously, it was thought that the nominate subspecies occurs in Australian waters, however, on the basis of molecular evidence it appears that the Australian form is S. longirostris roseiventris (see Perrin et al. 2007).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, oceanic, pelagic, piscivore, predator.

General References

Perrin, W.F., Aquino, T.M., Louella, M., Dolar, L. & Moonyeen, N.R. 2007. External appearance of the Dwarf Spinner Dolphin Stenella longirostris roseiventris. Marine Mammal Science 23(2): 464-467

Common Name References

van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. (Dwarf Spinner Dolphin)

History of changes