Sousa Gray 1866 (dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Parent taxon: Delphininae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Hassanin et al. 2012, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson and Karczmarski 2001, Jefferson and Rosenbaum 2014, Kasuya 1973, LeDuc et al. 1999, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Murakami et al. 2014, Palmer 1904, Perrin et al. 2013 and Rice 1998

Sister taxa: Delphinina, Delphinus, Etruridelphis, Lagenodelphis, Septidelphis, Stenella, Tursiops

Subtaxa: Sousa chinensis Sousa plumbea Sousa sahulensis Sousa teuszii

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (1), Cameroon (1), China (1), India (2), Malaysia (1), Tanzania (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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