Delphinoidea

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Delphinoidea
Temporal range: 28–0 Ma Oligocene to Recent[1]
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Clade: Delphinida
Superfamily: Delphinoidea
Flower, 1865
Families

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Delphinoidea is the largest group of toothed whales with 66 genera in 6 families. The largest living member of the superfamily is the killer whale, which can reach 6 tons, while the smallest is the vaquita.

Taxonomy[]

Based on McGowen et al., 2019[2]

Superfamily Delphinoidea

Family †Albireonidae
Genus
Family Delphinidae
Subfamily
Genus Delphinus
Genus Lagenodelphis
Genus Sotalia
Genus Sousa
Genus Stenella
Genus Tursiops
Subfamily Globicephalinae
Genus †
Genus Feresa
Genus Globicephala
Genus Grampus
Genus Orcaella
Genus Peponocephala
Genus Pseudorca
Genus Steno
Subfamily
Genus Cephalorhynchus
Genus Lissodelphis
Genus Sagmatias
Subfamily Orcininae
Genus †
Genus †Eodelphinus
Genus †Hemisyntrachelus
Genus Orcinus
Subfamily incertae sedis
Genus †Australodelphis
Genus †Etruridelphis
Genus Lagenorhynchus
Genus Leucopleurus
Genus †
Family †Kentriodontidae
Subfamily
Genus
Genus
Genus
Genus ?
Genus Kentriodon
Genus
Genus
Genus Macrokentriodon
Genus
Genus Rudicetus
Genus Tagicetus
Subfamily Lophocetinae
Genus Hadrodelphis
Genus Liolithax
Genus Lophocetus
Subfamily Pithanodelphininae?
Genus Atocetus?
Genus ?
Genus ?
Genus ?
Genus ?
Subfamily Kampholophinae?
Genus ?
Family Monodontidae
Subfamily
Genus †Bohaskaia
Genus Delphinapterus
Genus † Denebola
Subfamily Monodontinae
Genus Monodon
Family † Odobenocetopsidae
Genus Odobenocetops
Family Phocoenidae
Genus †Archaeophocaena
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †Miophocaena
Genus Neophocaena
Genus †
Genus Phocoena
Genus Phocoenoides
Genus †
Genus †Pterophocaena
Genus †
Genus †Semirostrum
Genus †
Familia incertae sedis
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †
Genus †

References[]

  1. ^ The Paleobiology Database
  2. ^ McGowen, Michael R; Tsagkogeorga, Georgia; Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; dos Reis, Mario; Struebig, Monika; Deaville, Robert; Jepson, Paul D; Jarman, Simon; Polanowski, Andrea; Morin, Phillip A; Rossiter, Stephen J (2019-10-21). "Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 479–501. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz068. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 7164366. PMID 31633766.


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