Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae

Full reference: W. H. Flower. 1867. Description of the skeleton of Inia geoffrensis and the skull of Pontoporia blainvillii, with remarks on the systematic position of these animals in the Order Cetacea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 6:87-116

Parent taxon: Physeteridae according to F. C. Whitmore and J. A. Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Aulophyseter, Aulophyseterinae, Ferecetotherium, Hoplocetinae, Idiophyseter, Kogiopsis, Physeter, Physeterula, Scaldicetus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore