#0490 · 🦊 mammals

Pantropical Spotted Dolphin

🇳🇱 Slanke Dolfijn ·Stenella attenuata

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Alexandre Roux · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0
3. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Don Lipmanson · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Saul Herrera · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Saul Herrera · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Amila Tennakoon · CC BY 4.0
9. © Joseph Ferris III · CC BY 4.0
10. © NOAA · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,891iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
1,891 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1846 (180 years ago).