Delphinida
| Delphinida Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| A Commerson's dolphin | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
| Clade: | Delphinida Muizon, 1984 |
| Superfamilies | |
Delphinida is a clade of cetaceans in the parvorder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. It includes all modern oceanic dolphins, porpoises, and their relatives, such as Lipotidae[2] and Iniidae.[3][1][4][5]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Infraorder Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org.
- ↑ "Family Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978 (toothed whale)". PBDB.
- ↑ "Family Iniidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
- ↑ "Family Platanistidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
- ↑ Muizon, C. (1984). "Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou) II: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Pliocene inferieur de Sud-Sacaco". Institut Français d'Études Andines Éditions Recherche sur les Civilizations Mémoire. 50: 1–188.
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