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Stenella attenuata (Pantropical Spotted Dolphin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is a species of dolphin found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans. The species was beginning to come under threat due to the killing of millions of individuals in tuna purse seines. In the 1980s, the rise of "dolphin-friendly" tuna capture methods saved millions of the species in the eastern Pacific Ocean and it is now one of the most abundant dolphin species in the world.
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Infraspecies

Stenella attenuata attenuata
Stenella attenuata graffmani (Eastern Pacific Coastal Spotted Porpoise)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.55
EDGE Score: 2.15
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Attributes

Gestation [3]  11 months 15 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  0.3
Maximum Longevity [3]  46 years
Migration [1]  Intraoceanic
Snout to Vent Length [2]  7.019 feet (214 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Weaning [3]  1 year 5 months
Adult Weight [2]  192.608 lbs (87.365 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  22.046 lbs (10.00 kg)
Female Weight [2]  147.248 lbs (66.79 kg)
Male Weight [2]  237.968 lbs (107.94 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  61.6 %
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Forages - Marine [4]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  8 years 2 months
Male Maturity [3]  10 years 10 months

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Feresa attenuata (Pygmy Killer Whale)[9]
Isistius brasiliensis (Smooth cookiecutter shark)[9]
Orcinus orca (Killer Whale)[9]
Pseudorca crassidens (False Killer Whale)[9]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 7DIET OF THE STRIPED DOLPHIN, Stenella coeruleoalba, IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, William F. Perrin, Kelly M. Robertson, and William A. Walker, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, March 2008
♦ 8Feeding Habits of the Pantropical Spotted Dolphin, Stenella attenuata, off the Eastern Coast of Taiwan, Ming-Chih Wang, William A. Walker, Kwang-Tsao Shao and Lien-Siang Chou, Zoological Studies 42(2): 368-378 (2003)
♦ 9Stenella attenuata, William F. Perrin, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 683, pp. 1–8 (2001)
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0