Delphinus delannoy Van Beneden 1860 (common dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Alternative combination: Delphinus delannoyi

Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1860. Rapport de M. Van Beneden. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 10:403-411

Belongs to Delphinus according to O. Abel 1901

See also Van Beneden 1860 and Vanden Broeck 1874

Sister taxa: Delphinus baltringii, Delphinus bertini, Delphinus bonnaterrei, Delphinus boryi, Delphinus brevidens, Delphinus chilensis, Delphinus coronatus, Delphinus delphis, Delphinus dewaeli, Delphinus epiodon, Delphinus fabricii, Delphinus feres, Delphinus harlani, Delphinus leucocephalus, Delphinus maculatus, Delphinus minimus, Delphinus nesarnac, Delphinus niger, Delphinus obtusus, Delphinus pernettyi, Delphinus rappii, Delphinus rhinoceros, Delphinus rikuzenensis, Delphinus risso, Delphinus siculus, Delphinus taramelli, Delphinus tursio, Delphinus wasii, Eudelphinus compressus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Eibergen, which is in a Serravallian coastal claystone in the Netherlands

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)

• Miocene of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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