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Sousa
Taxonomy
Sousa was named by Gray (1866). It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia by Hershkovitz (1966); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus by Hassanin et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Stenidae by Fraser and Purves (1960); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Cephalorhynchinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Delphinidae by Palmer (1904), Rice (1998), Jefferson and Karczmarski (2001), Mead and Brownell (2005), Murakami et al. (2014) and Jefferson and Rosenbaum (2014); and to Delphininae by de Muizon (1988), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia by Hershkovitz (1966); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus by Hassanin et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Stenidae by Fraser and Purves (1960); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Cephalorhynchinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Delphinidae by Palmer (1904), Rice (1998), Jefferson and Karczmarski (2001), Mead and Brownell (2005), Murakami et al. (2014) and Jefferson and Rosenbaum (2014); and to Delphininae by de Muizon (1988), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1866 | Sousa Gray |
| 1904 | Sousa Palmer p. 637 |
| 1960 | Sousa Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1973 | Sousa Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1988 | Sousa de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Sousa McKenna and Bell p. 386 |
| 1998 | Sousa Rice p. 102 |
| 1999 | Sousa LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Sousa Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2001 | Sousa Jefferson and Karczmarski p. 1 |
| 2005 | Sousa Mead and Brownell p. 732 |
| 2008 | Sousa Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2013 | Sousa Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2014 | Sousa Jefferson and Rosenbaum |
| 2014 | Sousa Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2016 | Sousa Marx et al. p. 140 |
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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
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available