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Neophocaena
Taxonomy
Neophocaena was named by Palmer (1899). It is extant. Its type is Neomeris phocaenoides. It was considered monophyletic by Weber (1928).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904); to Phocaeninae by Weber (1928); to Phocaenidae by Simpson (1945); to Delphininae by Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Phocoeninae by Kasuya (1973), Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); and to Phocoenidae by Jefferson (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Murakami et al. (2014), Colpaert et al. (2015), Marx et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904); to Phocaeninae by Weber (1928); to Phocaenidae by Simpson (1945); to Delphininae by Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Phocoeninae by Kasuya (1973), Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); and to Phocoenidae by Jefferson (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Murakami et al. (2014), Colpaert et al. (2015), Marx et al. (2016).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Neomeris Gray |
| 1847 | Meomeris Gray p. 36 |
| 1850 | Neomeris Gray p. 80 |
| 1863 | Neomeris Gray p. 201 |
| 1866 | Neomeris Gray p. 306 |
| 1867 | Neomeris Flower p. 115 |
| 1868 | Neomeris Gray p. 8 |
| 1869 | Neomeris Scammon and Cope p. 21 |
| 1871 | Neomeris Gill p. 125 |
| 1871 | Neomeris Gray p. 81 |
| 1872 | Neomeris Gill p. 95 |
| 1873 | Neomeris Scott p. 95 |
| 1890 | Neomeris Cope p. 609 |
| 1899 | Neophocaena Palmer p. 23 |
| 1904 | Neomeris Palmer p. 453 |
| 1904 | Neophocaena Palmer p. 454 |
| 1904 | Neophocaena Trouessart p. 768 |
| 1912 | Neomeris Turner p. 108 |
| 1921 | Neomeris Winge p. 36 |
| 1928 | Neophocaena Weber p. 389 |
| 1945 | Neophocaena Simpson p. 104 |
| 1951 | Neomeris Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 729 |
| 1960 | Neomeris Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Neophocaena Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1973 | Neophocaena Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1985 | Neophocaena Barnes p. 161 |
| 1988 | Neophocaena Jefferson |
| 1988 | Neophocaena de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Neophocaena McKenna and Bell p. 391 |
| 1998 | Neophocaena Rice p. 122 |
| 2001 | Neophocaena Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2005 | Neophocaena Mead and Brownell p. 735 |
| 2006 | Neophocaena Fajardo-Mellor et al. p. 927 |
| 2008 | Neophocaena Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2014 | Neophocaena Murakami et al. p. 502 figs. Figure 7 |
| 2015 | Neophocaena Colpaert et al. p. 9 figs. Figure 8 |
| 2016 | Neophocaena Marx et al. p. 137 |
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G. Neophocaena Palmer 1899
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Neophocaena asiaeorientalis Pilleri and Gihr 1972
Neophocaena phocaenoides Cuvier 1829 [finless porpoise]
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Neophocaena phocaenoides phocaenoides Cuvier 1829
Invalid names: Delphinapterus molagan Owen 1866 [synonym], Delphinus melas Temminck 1841 [synonym], Neomeris kurrachiensis Murray 1884 [synonym]
Neophocaena sunameri Piller and Gihr 1975
Invalid names: Meomeris Gray 1847 [synonym], Neomeris Gray 1846 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available