Striped dolphin

Order: Odontocetes
Family: Delphinidae
Other names: Thetis dolphin, dolphin blue-white
Latin name: Stenella coeruleoalba
Size: 1.8 to 2.5 metres
Weight: 90 to 150 kg
Dorsa fin : sickle-shaped

This is one of the most abundant cetacean. It can move in pods of several hundred thousand individuals.They follow the tuna in their movements. It feeds on herring, anchovies, mackerel and squid. It is present in all oceans of the world in tropical, subtropical and temperate.
His presence around the islands is not well known, the only reference we have is a stranding.

 

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