Common name: Striped Dolphin.

Scientific name: Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)

Family: Delphinidae

Distribution and Habitat: Its presence in the region is common. Generally, an oceanic species that occurs in the temperate and tropical seas.

Description: It has a long and thin stripe that begins in the eye and ends in the posterior ventral region. It presents another smaller stripe that goes from the eye to the base of the flipper. Its back is dark, its belly is light and its posterior region is greyish. In all the individuals there is a lighter stroke-shaped spot on the back, beneath the dorsal fin. The beak is prominent and dark. Its body length may reach 2,1 m and weigh 120 Kg.

Conservation statute and Threats: Of little concern.

Observations: It occurs in Madeira during the periods of greater concentration of common and spotted dolphins, from February to May and July to September.