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Odontoceti (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Odontoceti was named by Flower (1867). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Uhen (2008), Lambert et al. (2010).

It was corrected as Odontocete by Scott (1873), Hay (1902); it was reranked as the unranked clade Odontoceti by Gregory (1910), Winge (1921), Van Deinse (1931), McKenna and Bell (1997), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Pyenson and Hoch (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Uhen (2008), Rice (2009), Canto et al. (2010), Tanaka and Fordyce (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2016), Godfrey et al. (2017), Lambert et al. (2017), Tanaka et al. (2017), Boessenecker et al. (2017), Berta (2017), Hernández Cisneros et al. (2017), Lambert et al. (2018), Bianucci et al. (2018), Geisler (2018), Collareta et al. (2019), Peri et al. (2019), Benites-Palomino et al. (2020), Lambert et al. (2021), Jefferson et al. (2024), Kimura and Hasegawa (2024).

It was assigned to Cetacea by Gregory (1910); to Cetacei by Jaekel (1911); to Cete by Hay (1902), Hay (1930); to Autoceta by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Autoceta by Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Cetacea by Flower (1867), Scott (1873), Flower (1883), Lydekker (1887), Cope (1889), Cope (1890), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Zittel (1894), Flores (1895), Parker and Haswell (1897), Gadow (1898), Trouessart (1898), Abel (1900), Weber (1904), Trouessart (1904), Case (1904), True (1908), Turner (1912), Miller (1923), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Van Deinse (1931), Slijper (1936), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Paula Couto (1956), Fraser and Purves (1960), Rothausen (1961), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Gondar (1966), Hershkovitz (1966), Harland et al. (1967), Moore (1968), Gaskin et al. (1974), McKenna (1975), Brownell (1975), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Barnes (1978), Reeves and Tracey (1980), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Brownell (1983), Brownell and Praderi (1984), Whitmore (1984), Loughlin and Perez (1985), Barnes et al. (1985), Barnes (1985), Barnes (1985), Cozzuol (1985), Pilleri (1986), Heyning and Dahleim (1988), Carroll (1988), Stewart and Stewart (1989), Pilleri (1990), Vidal (1991), Benton (1993), Jefferson and Newcomer (1993), Stacey et al. (1994), Jefferson and Leatherwood (1994), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), Newcomer et al. (1996), da Silva and Best (1996), Bianucci (1997), Rice (1998), Bergqvist et al. (1999), Perrin (2001), Norman and Mead (2001), Jefferson and Karczmarski (2001), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Rice (2002), Perrin (2002), Kazár et al. (2004), Gingerich (2005), Mead and Brownell (2005), Cahuzac et al. (2005), Uhen (2005), Kazár (2005), Lambert (2005), Lambert (2006), Kazár (2006), Barnes (2006), Bianucci and Landini (2006), Hampe (2006), Lambert and Louwye (2006), Bianucci et al. (2007), Lambert (2008), Bloodworth and Odell (2008), Gutstein et al. (2009), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Post and Kompanje (2010); to Cetacea by Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Canto et al. (2010); to Cetacea by Bianucci et al. (2016); to Pelagiceti by Boessenecker et al. (2017); to Cetacea by Winge (1921), Pyenson and Hoch (2007), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Rice (2009), Benites-Palomino et al. (2020); to Cetacea by Jefferson et al. (2024); and to Neoceti by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Fordyce (2003), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Uhen (2008), Uhen (2010), Fitzgerald (2010), Lambert et al. (2010), Geisler et al. (2011), Tanaka and Fordyce (2014), Tanaka and Fordyce (2015), Tanaka and Fordyce (2016), Godfrey et al. (2016), Marx et al. (2016), Lambert et al. (2017), Godfrey et al. (2017), Lambert et al. (2017), Tanaka et al. (2017), Collareta et al. (2017), Berta (2017), Hernández Cisneros et al. (2017), Lambert et al. (2018), Bianucci et al. (2018), Lambert et al. (2018), Peredo et al. (2018), Geisler (2018), Collareta et al. (2019), Gaetán et al. (2019), Peri et al. (2019), Alfsen et al. (2021), Belluzzo and Lambert (2021), Lambert et al. (2021), Godfrey and Lambert (2023), Kimura and Hasegawa (2024), Nelson et al. (2025), Nelson et al. (2025), Gaetán et al. (2025).

Subtaxa
Acrodelphinidae, Agorophioidea, Agriocetus, Amblyoccipita, Argyrocetus (syn. Doliodelphis), Ashleycetidae, Atropatenocetus, Aureia, Balaenodon, Belosphys, Berardiopsis, Caolodelphis, Cetophis, Champsodelphis (syn. Acrodelphis), Champsodelphis italicus, Chilcacetus, Colophonodon, Delphinapterus orcinus, Delphinida, Delphinoceti, Delphinodon mento, Delphinopsis, Delphinorhynchus, Delphinus domeykoi, Delphinus restitutensis, Delphinus vanzelleri, Dinoziphius, Ediscetus, Enigmatocetus, Eurhinodelphinida, Eurhinodelphinidae (syn. Rhabdosteidae), Eurhinodelphis minoensis, Eurhinodelphis sassariensis, Graamocetus, Graphiodon, Helvicetus, Helvicetus rugosus, Hesperocetus, Hesperoinia, Homaeocetus, Homocetus villersii, Hyperoodontoidea, Inticetidae, Ixacanthus, Kharthlidelphis, Lonchodelphis, Macrochirifer, Macrodelphinus, Mesoplodontidae, Microcetus, Miokogia, Miotursiops, Mirocetidae, Monodontoidea, Nannolithax, Neosqualodon (syn. Microsqualodon), Oedolithax, Oligodelphis, Oligosqualodon, Palaeoziphius, Pandelphinida, Panphyseteroidea, Parapontoporiidae, Parasqualodon, Patriocetidae, Pelodelphis, Phoberodon, Phoca debilis, Phoca rugosidens, Phococetus, Physeteroidea, Physetodon, Platanidelphidi, Platanistida, Platanistoidea, Platydelphis, Pontivaga, Priscodelphinus, Priscodelphinus teres, Priscophyseter, Priscophyseter typus, Proinia, Prolipotes, Prophyseter, Prosqualodon (syn. Postsqualodon), Prosqualodon hamiltoni, Proterocetus, Rhabdosteoidea, Rhabdosteus, Rhabodosteus, Romaleodelphis, Sachalinocetus, Saurocetus, Saurocetus gibbesii, Scaptodon, Scaptodon lodderi, Squaloceti, Squalodelphis pusillus, Squalodon (Microzeuglodon) wingei, Squalodon crassus, Squalodon imperator, Squalodon linzianus, Squalodon molassicus (syn. Squalodon meyeri), Squalodon pelagius, Squalodon vocontiorum, Squalodon wymanii (syn. Delphinodon leidyi), Squalodontidae (syn. Mesoceti), Squalodontoidea, Stereodelphis, Sulakocetus, Susoidea, Susuoidea, Synrhina, Tretosphys, Tretosphys uraeus, Uncamentodon, Xenorophidae, Zignodelphinidae, Ziphioidea
Sister taxa
Susuoidea