Delphinida

Delphinida
Temporal range: Oligocene to Recent[1]
A Commerson's dolphin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Clade: Delphinida
Muizon, 1984
Superfamilies

Delphinoidea
Inioidea
Lipotoidea

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]

Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

References

  1. ^ a b "Infraorder Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org.
  2. ^ "Family Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978 (toothed whale)". PBDB.
  3. ^ "Family Iniidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
  4. ^ "Family Platanistidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
  5. ^ 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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