Mammals of the WorldSpinner Dolphin
Stenella longirostris
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Delphinidae
- Genus
- Stenella
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- American Samoa|Angola|Anguilla|Antigua and Barbuda|Argentina|Aruba|Australia|Bahamas|Bahrain|Bangladesh|Belize|Bermuda|Bonaire|Sint Eustatius|Saba|Brazil|Brunei|Cape Verde|Cambodia|Cayman Islands|China|Cocos Islands|Colombia|Comoros|Cook Islands|Costa Rica|Cuba|Curaçao|Cote d'Ivoire|Djibouti|Dominica|Dominican Republic|Ecuador|Galápagos Islands|Egypt|El Salvador|Eritrea|Fiji|French Guiana|French Polynesia|Ghana|Guam|Guatemala|Guinea|Honduras|India|Andaman and Nicobar Islands|Indonesia|Iran|Israel|Jamaica|Japan|Jordan|Kenya|Kiribati|Kuwait|Liberia|Madagascar|Malaysia|Maldives|Marshall Islands|Martinique|Mauritania|Mauritius|Mexico|Micronesia|Mozambique|Myanmar|New Caledonia|New Zealand|Nicaragua|Niue|Northern Marianas|Oman|Christmas Island|Pakistan|Palau|Panama|Papua New Guinea|Peru|Philippines|Puerto Rico|Réunion|Saint Helena|Saint Kitts and Nevis|Saint Lucia|Sint Maarten|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Samoa|Saudi Arabia|Senegal|Seychelles|Singapore|Solomon Islands|Somalia|South Africa|Sri Lanka|Sudan|Suriname|Taiwan|Tanzania|Thailand|East Timor|Tonga|Trinidad and Tobago|Tuvalu|United Arab Emirates|United States|Uruguay|Vanuatu|Venezuela|Vietnam|British Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands|Wallis and Futuna|Yemen|Barbados?|Benin?|Cameroon?|Republic of the Congo?|Democratic Republic of the Congo?|Equatorial Guinea?|Gabon?|Gambia?|Grenada?|Guadeloupe?|Guinea-Bissau?|Guyana?|Haiti?|Iraq?|North Korea?|South Korea?|Montserrat?|Morocco?|Namibia?|Nauru?|Nigeria?|Pitcairn?|São Tomé and Príncipe?|Sierra Leone?|Togo?|Tokelau?|Turks and Caicos Islands?
- Realm
- Marine
Other names: Long-beaked Dolphin|Long-snouted Dolphin|Pantropical Spinner Dolphin|Gray's Spinner Dolphin|Central American Spinner Dolphin|Eastern Spinner Dolphin|Dwarf Spinner Dolphin
About this species
It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it rotates around its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It is a member of the family Delphinidae of toothed whales. Concerns have been raised regarding the effects of anthropogenic activities on the species. Tourist vessels used for dolphin watching may disrupt normal behaviour, particularly when vessel numbers are high or when vessels approach dolphins more closely than permitted by local guidelines. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Spinner Dolphin is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. The distribution of the spinner dolphin extends across the tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans. Spinner dolphins exhibit a diurnal schedule characterised by predictable daily geographic migrations, spending mornings resting and socialising in shallow coastal waters before travelling offshore to forage at night. Central American or Costa Rican spinner dolphin (S. l. centroamericana), also found in the tropical eastern Pacific. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of sulawesi guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)