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Lagenorhynchus
Taxonomy
Lagenorhynchus was named by Gray (1846) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio Q Plei Sepkoski's reference number: 507]. Its type is Lagenorhynchus albirostris. It was considered monophyletic by Weber (1928).
It was reranked as Delphinus (Lagenorhynchus) by Owen (1866).
It was assigned to Delphinina by Gray (1846); to Delphinina by Gray (1864); to Delphinus by Owen (1866); to Lagenorhynchina by Gray (1868); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Delphininae by Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Gill (1871), Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004); and to Delphinidae by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1863), Gray (1866), Gray (1870), Cope (1890), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Rice (1998), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008) and Uhen et al. (2008).
It was reranked as Delphinus (Lagenorhynchus) by Owen (1866).
It was assigned to Delphinina by Gray (1846); to Delphinina by Gray (1864); to Delphinus by Owen (1866); to Lagenorhynchina by Gray (1868); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Delphininae by Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Gill (1871), Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004); and to Delphinidae by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1863), Gray (1866), Gray (1870), Cope (1890), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Rice (1998), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008) and Uhen et al. (2008).
Species
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1846 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 34 |
| 1850 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 97 |
| 1863 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 200 |
| 1864 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 237 |
| 1866 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 267 |
| 1866 | Lagenorhynchus (Electra) Gray p. 268 |
| 1866 | Delphinus (Lagenorhynchus) Owen |
| 1867 | Lagenorhynchus Flower p. 115 |
| 1868 | Electra Gray p. 7 |
| 1868 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 7 |
| 1870 | Electra Gray p. 772 |
| 1870 | Lagenorhynchus Gray p. 772 |
| 1871 | Lagenorhynchus Gill p. 95 |
| 1871 | Electra Gray p. 76 |
| 1890 | Lagenorhynchus Cope p. 609 |
| 1904 | Lagenorhynchus (Electra) Palmer p. 254 |
| 1904 | Lagenorhynchus Palmer p. 360 |
| 1912 | Lagenorhynchus Turner p. 125 |
| 1928 | Lagenorhynchus Weber p. 389 |
| 1945 | Lagenorhynchus Simpson p. 104 |
| 1951 | Lagenorhynchus Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 736 |
| 1960 | Lagenorhynchus Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. FIgure 26 |
| 1963 | Lagenorhynchus Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1973 | Lagenorhynchus Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1988 | Lagenorhynchus de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1991 | Lagenorhynchus Vidal p. 5 |
| 1997 | Lagenorhynchus McKenna and Bell p. 385 |
| 1998 | Lagenorhynchus Rice p. 113 |
| 1999 | Lagenorhynchus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Lagenorhynchus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2002 | Lagenorhynchus Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2004 | Lagenorhynchus Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2005 | Lagenorhynchus Mead and Brownell p. 729 |
| 2008 | Lagenorhynchus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 4.3 |
| 2008 | Lagenorhynchus Uhen et al. p. 593 |
| 2008 | Lagenorhynchus Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 218 |
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