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Taxonomy
Lipotidae was named by Zhou et al. (1978). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Iniidae by Mead and Brownell (2005).
It was assigned to Delphinoidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Odontoceti by Benton (1993), Rice (1998) and Rice (2002); to Platanistoidea by Zhou et al. (1984), Zhou et al. (1985), Barnes et al. (1985) and Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Inioidea by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Delphinida by Uhen et al. (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Boessenecker and Poust (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017); and to Lipotoidea by de Muizon (1988), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Gingerich (2005), Rice (2009), Boessenecker (2013) and Kimura and Hasegawa (2024).
It was synonymized subjectively with Iniidae by Mead and Brownell (2005).
It was assigned to Delphinoidea by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Odontoceti by Benton (1993), Rice (1998) and Rice (2002); to Platanistoidea by Zhou et al. (1984), Zhou et al. (1985), Barnes et al. (1985) and Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Inioidea by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Delphinida by Uhen et al. (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Boessenecker and Poust (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017); and to Lipotoidea by de Muizon (1988), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Gingerich (2005), Rice (2009), Boessenecker (2013) and Kimura and Hasegawa (2024).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1978 | Lipotidae Zhou et al. |
| 1984 | Lipotidae Zhou et al. p. 173 |
| 1985 | Lipotidae Barnes et al. p. 25 |
| 1985 | Lipotidae Zhou et al. p. 170 |
| 1988 | Lipotidae de Muizon p. 164 |
| 1993 | Lipotidae Benton p. 762 |
| 1997 | Lipotidae McKenna and Bell p. 387 |
| 1998 | Lipotidae Rice |
| 2001 | Lipotidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2002 | Lipotidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1 |
| 2003 | Lipotidae Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2005 | Lipotidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1 |
| 2007 | Lipotidae Bianucci and Landini p. 46 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2008 | Lipotidae Uhen et al. p. 585 |
| 2009 | Lipotidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
| 2011 | Lipotidae Geisler et al. p. 29 figs. Figure 5 |
| 2013 | Lipotidae Boessenecker p. 872 |
| 2015 | Lipotidae Boessenecker and Poust |
| 2016 | Lipotidae Marx et al. p. 131 |
| 2017 | Lipotidae Berta p. 163 |
| 2024 | Lipotidae Kimura and Hasegawa p. 2 |
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Fm. Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978
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G. †Parapontoporia Barnes 1984
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†Parapontoporia pacifica Barnes 1984
†Parapontoporia sternbergi Gregory and Kellogg 1927
†Parapontoporia wilsoni Barnes 1985
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available