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Physeter

Taxonomy
Physeter was named by Linnaeus (1758) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l R]. It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Cete by Linnaeus (1758); to Cete by Illiger (1811); to Physeterina by Gray (1825); to Balaenidae by De Kay (1842); to Catodontidae by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1863), Gray (1864) and Gray (1866); to Physeterinae by Gill (1871), Gill (1871), Brandt (1873), Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898), Hay (1902), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Vidal (1991), Muizon (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Kazar (2002); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Physeteridae by Gray (1821), Pictet (1853), Gray (1868), Scammon and Cope (1869), Ameghino (1889), Cope (1890), Newton (1891), Paquier (1894), Rhoads (1903), Palmer (1904), Abel (1919), Miller (1923), Dal Piaz (1929), Hay (1930), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Rice (1998), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008) and Geisler et al. (2011).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Physeter Linnaeus p. 76
1761Catodon Linnaeus p. 18
1804Physalus Lacépède
1811Physeter Illiger p. 142
1815Orthodon Rafinesque p. 60
1821Physeter Gray p. 310
1825Catodon Gray p. 340
1825Physeter Gray p. 340
1827Megistosaurus Godman p. 566 figs. not figured
1828Cetus Billberg
1842Physeter De Kay p. 128
1846Catodon Gray p. 83
1846Physeter Gray p. 83
1850Catodon Gray p. 44
1850Physeter Gray p. 53
1853Megistosaurus Pictet p. 386
1853Physeter Pictet p. 386
1863Catodon Gray p. 199
1863Physeter Gray p. 199
1864Catodon Gray p. 231
1864Physeter Gray p. 234
1866Catodon Gray p. 197
1866Physeter Gray p. 210
1866Meganeuron Gray p. 387
1868Catodon Gray p. 3
1868Meganeuron Gray p. 3
1868Physeter Gray p. 3
1869Physeter Scammon and Cope p. 32
1871Physeter Gill p. 96
1873Physeter Brandt p. 205
1887Physeter Lydekker p. 53
1889Physeter Ameghino p. 887
1890Physeter Cope p. 606
1891Physeter Newton p. 65
1894Physeter Paquier p. 46
1898Physeter Trouessart p. 1055
1902Physeter Hay p. 595
1903Physeter Rhoads p. 248
1904Catodon Palmer p. 164
1904Meganeuron Palmer p. 406
1904Physeter Palmer p. 536
1904Physeter Trouessart p. 774
1912Physeter Turner p. 71
1919Physeter Abel p. 765
1923Physeter Miller p. 40
1925Physeter Zittel p. 86
1928Physeter Weber p. 389
1929Physeter Dal Piaz p. 79
1930Physeter Hay p. 598
1945Physeter Simpson p. 102
1951Physeter Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 721
1960Physeter Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Physeter Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1973Physeter Kasuya p. 61
1977Physeter Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1988Physeter Carroll
1991Physeter Muizon p. 297
1991Physeter Vidal p. 5
1993Physeter Benton p. 761
1997Physeter McKenna and Bell p. 380
1998Physeter Rice p. 82
2001Physeter Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2002Physeter Kazar p. 163
2002Physeter Sepkoski, Jr.
2003Physeter Geisler and Sanders p. 29
2005Physeter Mead and Brownell p. 737
2008Physeter Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2011Physeter Geisler et al.

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