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Peponocephala
Taxonomy
Peponocephala was named by Nishiwaki and Norris (1966). It is extant.
It was assigned to Delphininae by Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Orcininae by Bianucci (2005); to Delphinidae by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Globicephalinae by Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Orcininae by Bianucci (2005); to Delphinidae by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Globicephalinae by Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1966 | Peponocephala Nishiwaki and Norris p. 95 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 1973 | Peponocephala Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1988 | Peponocephala de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1991 | Peponocephala Vidal p. 5 |
| 1997 | Peponocephala McKenna and Bell p. 386 |
| 1998 | Peponocephala Rice p. 116 |
| 1999 | Peponocephala LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Peponocephala Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2004 | Peponocephala Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2005 | Peponocephala Bianucci p. 340 |
| 2005 | Peponocephala Mead and Brownell p. 731 |
| 2008 | Peponocephala Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2009 | Peponocephala Aguirre-Fernández et al. |
| 2013 | Peponocephala Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2014 | Peponocephala Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2016 | Peponocephala Marx et al. p. 140 |
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G. Peponocephala Nishiwaki and Norris 1966
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Peponocephala electra Gray 1846 [melon-headed whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus (Lagenorhynchus) fusiformis Owen 1866 [synonym], Delphinus pectoralis Peale 1848 [synonym], Electra asia Gray 1846 [synonym], Electra fusiformis Owen 1866 [synonym], Electra obtusa Gray 1868 [synonym], Phocoena pectoralis Peale 1849 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available