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Phocoenoides
Taxonomy
Phocoenoides was named by Andrews (1911) [This is an alternate spelling of Phocoenoides.]. It is extant. Its type is Phocoenoides dalli. It was considered monophyletic by Barnes (1984).
It was synonymized subjectively with Phocaena by Simpson (1945); it was corrected as Phocaenoides by Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Phocoeninae by Kasuya (1973); to Phocoenoidinae by Barnes (1984), Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); and to Phocoenidae by Barnes (1977), Jefferson (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Colpaert et al. (2015) and Marx et al. (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Phocaena by Simpson (1945); it was corrected as Phocaenoides by Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Phocoeninae by Kasuya (1973); to Phocoenoidinae by Barnes (1984), Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); and to Phocoenidae by Barnes (1977), Jefferson (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Fajardo-Mellor et al. (2006), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Colpaert et al. (2015) and Marx et al. (2016).
Species
P. dalli (syn. P. truei) (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1911 | Phocoenoides Andrews p. 31 |
| 1963 | Phocoenoides Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1973 | Phocoenoides Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1977 | Phocoenoides Barnes p. 323 |
| 1984 | Phocoenoides Barnes |
| 1985 | Phocoenoides Barnes p. 161 |
| 1988 | Phocoenoides Jefferson |
| 1988 | Phocoenoides de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Phocoenoides McKenna and Bell p. 390 |
| 1998 | Phocoenoides Rice p. 125 |
| 2001 | Phocoenoides Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2005 | Phocoenoides Mead and Brownell p. 736 |
| 2006 | Phocaenoides Fajardo-Mellor et al. p. 927 |
| 2008 | Phocoenoides Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2011 | Phocoenoides Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Phocoenoides Colpaert et al. p. 9 figs. Figure 8 |
| 2016 | Phocoenoides Marx et al. p. 137 |
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G. Phocoenoides Andrews 1911
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Phocoenoides dalli True 1885 [Dall's porpoise]
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Invalid names: Phocoenoides truei Andrews 1911 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available