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Delphininae
Taxonomy
Delphininae was named by Flower (1867). It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Holodontidae by Brandt (1874) and Brandt (1874); and to Delphinidae by Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Hay (1902), Abel (1905), True (1908), Miller (1923), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Perrin (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Perrin (2002), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Foekens (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Charlton-Robb et al. (2011), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Holodontidae by Brandt (1874) and Brandt (1874); and to Delphinidae by Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Hay (1902), Abel (1905), True (1908), Miller (1923), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Perrin (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Perrin (2002), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Foekens (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Charlton-Robb et al. (2011), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Delphinina Gray p. 340 |
| 1846 | Delphinina Gray p. 30 |
| 1849 | Delphinina Bonaparte p. 618 |
| 1850 | Delphinina Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1864 | Delphinina Gray p. 235 |
| 1867 | Delphininae Flower p. 115 |
| 1868 | Delphinina Gray p. 5 |
| 1871 | Delphininae Gill p. 124 |
| 1871 | Delphinina Gray p. 67 |
| 1872 | Delphininae Gill p. 95 |
| 1874 | Delphininae Brandt p. II |
| 1902 | Delphininae Hay p. 593 |
| 1905 | Delphininae Abel p. 140 |
| 1908 | Delphininae True p. 391 |
| 1921 | Delphini Winge p. 36 |
| 1923 | Delphininae Miller p. 40 |
| 1928 | Delphininae Weber p. 389 |
| 1930 | Delphininae Hay p. 586 |
| 1960 | Delphininae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Delphininae Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1973 | Delphininae Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1985 | Delphininae Barnes et al. p. 25 |
| 1991 | Delphininae Vidal p. 5 |
| 1994 | Delphininae Fordyce and Barnes p. 429 figs. Table 1 |
| 1995 | Delphininae Fordyce et al. p. 340 |
| 1997 | Delphininae McKenna and Bell p. 384 |
| 1999 | Delphininae LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Delphininae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2001 | Delphininae Perrin p. 1 |
| 2002 | Delphininae Perrin p. 1 |
| 2004 | Delphininae Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2007 | Delphininae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2008 | Delphininae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 |
| 2008 | Delphininae Foekens p. 7 figs. Table 1 |
| 2011 | Delphininae Charlton-Robb et al. p. 13 |
| 2011 | Delphininae Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2013 | Delphininae Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Delphininae Marx et al. p. 140 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Subfm. †Delphininae Flower 1867
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G. Delphinus Linnaeus 1758 [common dolphin]
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Delphinus bairdii Dall 1873
†Delphinus baltringii Van Beneden 1876
†Delphinus delannoy Van Beneden 1860
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus 1758 [short-beaked common dolphin]
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Delphinus delphis delphis Tomilin 1957
Invalid names: Delphinus albimanus Peale 1848 [synonym], Delphinus algeriensis Loche 1860 [synonym], Delphinus capensis Gray 1828 [synonym], Delphinus dussumieri Blanford 1891 [synonym], Delphinus fluvofasciatus Wagner 1853 [synonym], Delphinus forsteri Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus frithii Blyth 1859 [synonym], Delphinus fulvifasciatus Wagner 1846 [synonym], Delphinus janira Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus longirostris Cuvier 1829 [synonym], Delphinus loriger Wiegmann 1846 [synonym], Delphinus major Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus microps Burmeister 1866 [synonym], Delphinus moorei Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus novaezelandiae Quoy and Gainard 1830 [synonym], Delphinus pomeegra Owen 1866 [synonym], Delphinus ponticus Barabash 1935 [synonym], Delphinus tropicalis van Bree 1971 [synonym], Delphinus vulgaris Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Delphinus walkeri Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus zelandae Gray 1843 [synonym], Eudelphinus pliocaenus Gervais 1859 [synonym], Eudelphinus tasmaniensis Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Lagenorhynchus decastelnau Van Beneden 1873 [synonym]
†Delphinus dewaeli Vanden Broeck 1874
†Delphinus rikuzenensis Hatai et al. 1963
Delphinus risso Risso 1826
†Delphinus taramelli de Zigno 1872
†Delphinus wasii Vanden Broeck 1874
Invalid names: Delphinus bertini Desmarest 1817 [nomen dubium], Delphinus bonnaterrei Tiedemann 1808 [nomen dubium], Delphinus boryi Desmarest 1822 [nomen dubium], Delphinus chilensis Philippi 1896 [nomen dubium], Delphinus coronatus Blainville 1817 [nomen dubium], Delphinus epiodon Desmarest 1822 [nomen dubium], Delphinus fabricii Billberg 1827 [nomen dubium], Delphinus feres Bonnaterre 1789 [nomen dubium], Delphinus harlani Fischer 1829 [nomen dubium], Delphinus leucocephalus Lesson 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus maculatus Lesson and Garnot 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus malayanus Lesson 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus minimus Lesson 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus nesarnac Lesson 1827 [nomen dubium], Delphinus niger Lacepede 1818 [nomen dubium], Delphinus obtusus Schlegel 1862 [nomen dubium], Delphinus pernettyi Blainville 1817 [nomen oblitum], Delphinus rappii Reichenbach 1846 [nomen dubium], Delphinus rhinoceros Quoy and Gaimard 1824 [nomen dubium], Delphinus sao Gray 1846 [nomen dubium], Delphinus siculus Rafinesque Schmaltz 1810 [nomen dubium], Delphinus tursio Fabricius 1780 [nomen dubium], Eudelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym]
G. †Etruridelphis Bianucci et al. 2009
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G. Sousa Gray 1866
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Sousa chinensis Osbeck 1765 [Chinese white dolphin]
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Invalid names: Delphinus sinensis Desmarest 1822 [synonym], Sotalia borneensis Lydekker 1901 [synonym], Sousa huangi Wang Peilie 1999 [synonym], Sousa lentiginosa Iredale and Troughton 1934 [synonym]
Sousa plumbea Flower 1884
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Invalid names: Delphinus (Steno) lentiginosus Owen 1866 [synonym], Sotalia fergusoni Lydekker 1903 [synonym], Stenopontistes zambezicus Mirando Ribeiro 1936 [synonym]
Sousa sahulensis Jefferson and Rosenbaum 2014
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Invalid names: Sousa queenslandensis Gaskin 1972 [synonym]
Sousa teuszii Kukenthal 1892
G. Stenella Gray 1866
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Stenella attenuata Gray 1846 [pantropical spotted dolphin]
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Invalid names: Clymene punctata Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus albirostratus Peale 1848 [synonym], Delphinus brevimanus Wagner 1846 [synonym], Delphinus microbrachium Gray 1850 [synonym], Delphinus pseudodelphis Wiegmann 1840 [synonym], Delphinus velox Cuvier 1829 [synonym], Prodelphinus graffmani Lonnberg 1934 [synonym], Steno capensis Gray 1866 [synonym], Steno consimilis Malm 1871 [synonym]
Stenella clymene Gray 1850
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Invalid names: Clymene normalis Gray 1866 [synonym], Clymenia normalis Gray 1868 [synonym], Prodelphinus clymene Lutken 1889 [synonym]
Stenella coeruleoalba Meyen 1833
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Invalid names: Clymene burmeisteri Malm 1871 [synonym], Clymenia euphrosynoides Gray 1868 [synonym], Clymenia novaezelandiae Hector 1873 [synonym], Delphinus amphitriteus Philippi 1893 [synonym], Delphinus asthenops Cope 1865 [synonym], Delphinus crotaphiscus Cope 1865 [synonym], Delphinus euphrosyne Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus holbollii Nilsson 1847 [synonym], Delphinus lateralis Peale 1848 [synonym], Delphinus marginatus Duvernoy 1857 [synonym], Delphinus mediterraneus Loche 1860 [synonym], Delphinus styx Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus tethyos Gervais 1853 [synonym], Tursio dorcides Gray 1866 [synonym]
Stenella frontalis Cuvier 1829
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Invalid names: Delphinus (Delphinorhynchus) pernettyi Blainville 1817 [replaced], Delphinus doris Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus frenatus Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus froenatus Cuvier 1836 [synonym], Delphinus plagiodon Cope 1866 [synonym]
Stenella longirostris Gray 1828
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Invalid names: Delphinus alope Gray 1850 [synonym], Delphinus microps Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus roseiventris Wagner 1846 [synonym], Delphinus stenorhynchus Gray 1866 [synonym]
†Stenella rayi Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Invalid names: Clymenia Gray 1864 [synonym], Delphinus attenuatus Gray 1843 [nomen nudum], Euphrosyne Gray 1866 [synonym], Fretidelphis Iredale and Troughton 1934 [synonym], Micropia Gray 1868 [synonym], Prodelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Stenella dubia Cuvier 1812 [nomen dubium]
G. Tursiops Gervais 1855
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Tursiops aduncus Ehrenberg 1832
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Invalid names: Delphinus (Steno) gadamu Owen 1866 [synonym], Delphinus (Steno) maculiventer Owen 1866 [synonym], Delphinus abusalam Ruppell 1842 [synonym], Delphinus hamatus Wiegmann 1841 [synonym], Delphinus salam Van Beneden 1886 [synonym], Sotalia perniger Trouessart 1898 [synonym], Tursiops australis Charlton-Robb et al. 2011 [synonym], Tursiops catalania Gray 1862 [synonym], Tursiops fergusoni Lydekker 1903 [synonym]
†Tursiops astensis Sacco 1891
†Tursiops brochii Balsamo Crivelli 1842
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Invalid names: Delphinapterus brocchii Brandt 1873 [synonym]
Tursiops erebennus Cope 1865
Tursiops truncatus Gray 1866 [common bottlenose dolphin]
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Tursiops truncatus truncatus Hershkovitz 1966
Invalid names: Delphinus compressicauda Lesson 1828 [synonym], Delphinus cymodoce Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus erebennus Cope 1865 [synonym], Delphinus eurynome Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus metis Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus nesarnack Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Delphinus tursio Gunnerus 1768 [synonym], Tursio catalania Gray 1844 [synonym], Tursiops dawsoni Lydekker 1909 [synonym], Tursiops gephyreus Lahille 1908 [synonym], Tursiops maugeanus Iredale and Troughton 1934 [synonym], Tursiops nuuanu Andrews 1911 [synonym], Tursiops parvimanus Van Beneden 1886 [synonym], Tursiops ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov 1940 [synonym], Tursiops tursio Bonnaterre 1789 [synonym], Tursiops tursio obtusus Schlegel 1862 [synonym]
Tursiops truncatus gillii Dall 1873
Invalid names: Delphinus caerulescens Giglioli 1874 [nomen dubium], Delphinus perniger Blyth 1848 [nomen dubium], Tursiops subridens True 1884 [nomen nudum]
Invalid names: Delphinina Gray 1825 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available