| Delphinoidea | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Mammalia | 
| Order: | Artiodactyla | 
| Infraorder: | Cetacea | 
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti | 
| Clade: | Delphinida | 
| Superfamily: | Delphinoidea Flower, 1865  | 
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Delphinoidea is the largest group of toothed whales with 66 genera in 6 families. The largest living member of the superfamily is the killer whale, which can reach 6 tons, while the smallest is the vaquita.
Taxonomy
Based on McGowen et al., 2019[2]
Superfamily Delphinoidea
- Family †Albireonidae
- Genus Albireo
 
 - Family Delphinidae
- Subfamily Delphininae
 - Subfamily Globicephalinae
- Genus †Astadelphis
 - Genus Feresa
 - Genus Globicephala
 - Genus Grampus
 - Genus Orcaella
 - Genus Peponocephala
 - Genus Pseudorca
 - Genus Steno
 
 - Subfamily Lissodelphininae
- Genus Cephalorhynchus
 - Genus Lissodelphis
 
 - Subfamily Orcininae
- Genus †Arimidelphis
 - Genus †Eodelphinus
 - Genus †Hemisyntrachelus
 - Genus Orcinus
 
 - Subfamily incertae sedis
- Genus †Australodelphis
 - Genus †Etruridelphis
 - Genus Lagenorhynchus
 - Genus †Sinanodelphis
 
 
 - Family †Kentriodontidae
- Subfamily Kentriodontinae
- Genus Belonodelphis
 - Genus Delphinodon
 - Genus Heterodelphis
 - Genus Incacetus?
 - Genus Kentriodon
 - Genus Lamprolithax
 - Genus Loxolithax
 - Genus Macrokentriodon
 - Genus Microphocaena
 - Genus Rudicetus
 - Genus Tagicetus
 
 - Subfamily Lophocetinae
- Genus Hadrodelphis
 - Genus Liolithax
 - Genus Lophocetus
 - Genus Platyvercus[3]
 
 - Subfamily Pithanodelphininae?
- Genus Atocetus?
 - Genus Leptodelphis?
 - Genus Pithanodelphis?
 - Genus Sarmatodelphis?
 - Genus Sophianacetus?
 
 - Subfamily Kampholophinae?
- Genus Kampholophos?
 
 
 - Subfamily Kentriodontinae
 - Family  Monodontidae
- Subfamily Delphinapterinae
- Genus †Bohaskaia
 - Genus Delphinapterus
 - Genus † Denebola
 
 - Subfamily Monodontinae
- Genus Monodon
 
 
 - Subfamily Delphinapterinae
 - Family † Odobenocetopsidae
- Genus Odobenocetops
 
 - Family  Phocoenidae
- Genus †Archaeophocaena
 - Genus †Australithax
 - Genus †Brabocetus
 - Genus †Haborophocoena
 - Genus †Lomacetus
 - Genus †Miophocaena
 - Genus Neophocaena
 - Genus †Numataphocoena
 - Genus Phocoena
 - Genus Phocoenoides
 - Genus †Piscolithax
 - Genus †Pterophocaena
 - Genus †Salumiphocaena
 - Genus †Semirostrum
 - Genus †Septemtriocetus
 
 - Familia incertae sedis
- Genus †Graamocetus
 - Genus †Miodelphis
 - Genus †Nannolithax
 - Genus †Oedolithax
 - Genus †Palaeophocaena
 - Genus †Platylithax
 - Genus †Protodelphinus
 
 
References
- ↑ The Paleobiology Database
 - ↑ McGowen, Michael R; Tsagkogeorga, Georgia; Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; dos Reis, Mario; Struebig, Monika; Deaville, Robert; Jepson, Paul D; Jarman, Simon; Polanowski, Andrea; Morin, Phillip A; Rossiter, Stephen J (2019-10-21). "Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 479–501. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz068. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 7164366. PMID 31633766.
 - ↑ Guo, Z.; Kohno, N. (February 2023). "An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography". PLOS ONE. 18 (2): e0280218. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1880218G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280218. PMC 9931143. PMID 36791148.
 
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