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Delphinidae (dolphin)

Taxonomy

Delphinidae was named by Gray (1821). It is extant.

It was assigned to Carnivorae by Gray (1821); to Cetae by Gray (1825); to Cete by Gray (1846), Bonaparte (1849), Gray (1850) and Bonaparte (1850); to Denticete by Gray (1866), Scammon and Cope (1869), Gill (1871) and Gill (1871); to Denticete by Gray (1864) and Gill (1873); to Odontoceta by Ameghino (1889); to Odontocete by Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); to Delphinoceti by Abel (1913), Portis (1925), Dal Piaz (1929) and Van Deinse (1931); to Odontoceti by Slijper (1936); to Cetacea by De Kay (1842), Bronn (1853), Pictet (1853), Newton (1891) and Nowak (1991); to Odontoceti by Flower (1867), Flower (1883), Lydekker (1887), Cope (1889), Cope (1890), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Flores (1895), Trouessart (1898), Weber (1904), Trouessart (1904), Case (1904), Abel (1905), True (1908), Turner (1912), Miller (1923), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Pilleri (1985), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Jefferson and Newcomer (1993), Jefferson and Leatherwood (1994), Newcomer et al. (1996), Perrin (2001), Jefferson and Karczmarski (2001), Perrin (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003) and Mead and Brownell (2005); and to Delphinoidea by Gray (1868), Gray (1870), Simpson (1945), Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), Barnes et al. (1985), Heyning and Dahleim (1988), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), Stacey et al. (1994), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), da Silva and Best (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci (2005), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Aguirre-Fernandez et al. (2009), Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Post and Kompanje (2010), Geisler et al. (2011) and Bianucci (2013).

Sister taxa

Albireonidae, Kentriodontidae (syn. Portheus patagonicus), Monodontidae, Odobenocetopsidae, Phocoenidae

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Synonyms

Trispondylus was named by Vanden Broeck (1874) [Vanden Broeck assigns this taxon to Van Beneden.]. Its type is Trispondylus kleini.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Uhen (2015).

It was assigned to Delphinidae by Vanden Broeck (1874).
Trispondylus kleini was named by Vanden Broeck (1874) [Vanden Broeck assigns this taxon to Van Beneden.]. It is the type species of Trispondylus.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Uhen (2015).
Grampidelphidae was named by Nishiwaki (1963). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Delphinidae by Mead and Brownell (2005).
Delphinus chilensis was named by Philippi (1896). It is extant.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Hershkovitz (1966).
Cephalorhynchinae was named by Fraser and Purves (1960). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Delphinidae by Mead and Brownell (2005).

It was assigned to Delphinidae by Fraser and Purves (1960), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004).
Hemisyntrachelidae was named by Slijper (1936). Its type is Hemisyntrachelus.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Delphinidae by Barnes et al. (1985) and Fordyce et al. (1995).

It was assigned to Odontoceti by Slijper (1936); to Odontoceti by Benton (1993); and to Delphinoidea by Simpson (1945) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Steno cudmorei was named by Chapman (1917) [no number listed for the holotype specimen in Chapman 1917.]. It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Beaumaris, which is in a Messinian marine sandstone in the Black Rock Sandstone Formation of Australia.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Fitzgerald (2004).
Tursiops miocaenus was named by Portis (1886). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rosignano, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in Italy.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Barnes (1990).
Stenidae was named by Fraser and Purves (1960). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Steninae by Mead (1975), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinidae by Mead and Brownell (2005).

It was assigned to Delphinoidea by Fraser and Purves (1960); and to Delphinidae by Mead (1975), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004).
Sotaliinae was named by Kasuya (1973). It is extant.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Steninae by Barnes et al. (1985).

It was assigned to Delphinidae by Kasuya (1973).
Delphinus malayanus was named by Lesson (1826). It is extant.

It was recombined as Steno malayanus by Gray (1846), Gray (1850) and Gray (1866); it was recombined as Prodelphinus malayanus by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Stenella dubia by Hershkovitz (1966); it was considered a nomen nudum by Jefferson and Van Waerebeek (2004); it was synonymized subjectively with Stenella attenuata by Mead and Brownell (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1821	Delphinidae Gray p. 309
1825	Delphinidae Gray p. 340
1826	Delphinus malayanus Lesson
1842	Delphinidae De Kay
1846	Delphinidae Gray p. 21
1846	Steno malayanus Gray p. 43
1849	Delphinidae Bonaparte p. 618
1850	Delphinidae Bonaparte p. 1
1850	Delphinidae Gray p. 57
1850	Steno malayanus Gray p. 127
1853	Delphinidae Bronn p. 758
1853	Delphinidae Pictet p. 381
1864	Delphinidae Gray p. 235
1866	Delphinidae Gray p. 62
1866	Steno malayanus Gray p. 232
1867	Delphinidae Flower p. 113
1868	Delphinidae Gray p. 4
1869	Delphinidae Scammon and Cope p. 20
1870	Delphinidae Gray p. 772
1871	Delphinidae Gill p. 95
1873	Delphinidae Gill p. 27
1874	Trispondylus Vanden Broeck p. 146
1874	Trispondylus kleini Vanden Broeck p. 147
1883	Delphinidae Flower p. 184
1886	Tursiops miocaenus Portis figs. Fig. 5
1887	Delphinidae Lydekker p. 75
1889	Delphinidae Ameghino p. 885
1889	Delphinidae Cope p. 876
1890	Delphinidae Cope p. 609
1891	Delphinidae Flower and Lydekker p. 89
1891	Delphinidae Newton p. 76
1895	Delphinidae Flores p. 12
1896	Delphinus chilensis Philippi
1898	Delphinidae Trouessart p. 1026
1898	Tursiops miocaenus Trouessart p. 1029
1902	Delphinidae Hay p. 593
1904	Delphinidae Case p. 29
1904	Delphinidae Trouessart p. 763
1904	Tursiops miocaenus Trouessart p. 764
1904	Prodelphinus malayanus Trouessart p. 766
1904	Delphinidae Weber p. 579
1905	Delphinidae Abel p. 139
1908	Delphinidae True p. 391
1912	Delphinidae Turner p. 96
1913	Delphinidae Abel p. 221
1917	Steno cudmorei Chapman p. 41 figs. Plate IV, FIg 5
1923	Delphinidae Miller p. 40
1925	Delphinidae Portis p. 14
1925	Delphinidae Zittel p. 87
1928	Delphinidae Weber p. 389
1929	Delphinidae Dal Piaz p. 84
1930	Delphinidae Hay p. 585
1931	Delphinidae Van Deinse p. 33
1936	Hemisyntrachelidae Slijper p. 552
1936	Delphinidae Slijper p. 555
1945	Hemisyntrachelidae Simpson p. 102
1945	Delphinidae Simpson p. 103
1951	Delphinidae Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 730
1960	Cephalorhynchinae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1960	Delphinidae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1960	Stenidae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963	Grampidelphidae Nishiwaki
1963	Delphinidae Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1966	Delphinidae Hershkovitz p. 15
1973	Sotaliinae Kasuya p. 32
1973	Delphinidae Kasuya p. 61
1973	Sotaliinae Kasuya p. 61 figs. Table 15
1975	Steninae Mead p. 26
1985	Delphinidae Barnes et al. p. 25
1985	Steninae Barnes et al. p. 25
1985	Tursiops miocaenus Pilleri p. 19
1985	Delphinidae Pilleri p. 62
1988	Delphinidae Carroll
1988	Delphinidae Heyning and Dahleim p. 1
1988	Cephalorhynchinae de Muizon p. 162
1988	Delphinidae de Muizon p. 188
1991	Delphinidae Nowak
1991	Delphinidae Vidal p. 5
1991	Steninae Vidal p. 5
1993	Delphinidae Benton p. 762
1993	Hemisyntrachelidae Benton p. 762
1993	Delphinidae Jefferson and Newcomer p. 1
1994	Delphinidae Fordyce and Barnes p. 429 figs. Table 1
1994	Steninae Fordyce and Barnes p. 429 figs. Table 1
1994	Delphinidae Jefferson and Leatherwood p. 1
1994	Delphinidae Stacey et al. p. 1
1995	Delphinidae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1995	Steninae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1996	Delphinidae Newcomer et al. p. 1
1996	Delphinidae da Silva and Best p. 1
1997	Delphinidae McKenna and Bell p. 384
1997	Cephalorhynchinae McKenna and Bell p. 386
1997	Hemisyntrachelidae McKenna and Bell p. 391
2001	Delphinidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2001	Delphinidae Jefferson and Karczmarski p. 1
2001	Delphinidae Perrin p. 1
2002	Delphinidae Perrin p. 1
2003	Delphinidae Geisler and Sanders p. 28
2004	Cephalorhynchinae Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2004	Steninae Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005	Delphinidae Bianucci p. 331
2005	Delphinidae Mead and Brownell p. 726
2007	Delphinidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2008	Delphinidae Uhen et al. p. 592
2008	Delphinidae Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 218
2009	Delphinidae Aguirre-Fernandez et al.
2009	Delphinidae Fordyce and Roberts p. 553
2010	Delphinidae Post and Kompanje p. 2
2011	Delphinidae Geisler et al. p. 29 figs. Figure 5
2013	Delphinidae Bianucci p. 723

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