Description
English: Photograph of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins off of Long Cay, near South Caicos in the Turks and Caicos islands.
Date 12 February 2010
Author Bmatulis
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Spotted_Dolphin.jpg

The Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) is a dolphin found in the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean. Older members of the species have a very distinctive spotted coloration all over their bodies. Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas have been observed mating with bottlenose dolphins. Rich LeDuc has published data that suggest the Atlantic spotted dolphin may be more closely related to bottlenose dolphin (genus Tursiops) than to other members of the genus Stenella. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Family: Delphinidae, Genus: Stenella, Species: Stenella frontalis (Cuvier, 1829), Synonyms: Stenella plagiodon Cope, 1866.