Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative spelling: Stenidae
Full reference: F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves. 1960. Hearing in Cetaceans. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 7(1):1-140
Parent taxon: Delphinidae according to R. Foekens 2008
See also Barnes et al. 1985, Buchholtz and Schur 2004, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fraser and Purves 1960, Mead 1975, Mead and Brownell 2005 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Arimidelphis, Australodelphis, Catodontina, Delphininae, Eodelphinus, Globicephalinae, Lagenorhynchina, Lagenorhynchus, Lissodelphininae, Monoceratina, Norisdelphis, Orcaellinae, Orcina, Orcininae, Orcinus, Pliodelphis, Pseudorcaina, Sotalia, Steno, Steno cudmorei, Stenonina, Stenoninae, Trispondylus, Tursiops miocaenus
Subtaxa: Sotaliinae
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Steninae in the database