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Acrodelphinidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Acrodelphidae was named by Abel (1905). Its type is Acrodelphis.
It was corrected as Acrodelphinidae by Abel (1914), Rice (1984) and Benton (1993).
It was assigned to Squaloceti by Abel (1914), Abel (1919), Dal Piaz (1929) and Van Deinse (1931); to Odontoceti by Slijper (1936); to Rhabdosteoidea by Muizon (1984); to Platanistoidea by Barnes et al. (1985); to Odontoceti by Abel (1905), Jaekel (1911), Zittel (1925), Rice (1984), Pilleri (1985), Pilleri (1986), Muizon (1988), Carroll (1988) and Benton (1993); and to Delphinoidea by Simpson (1945), Ginsburg and Janvier (1975) and Sach and Heizmann (2001).
It was corrected as Acrodelphinidae by Abel (1914), Rice (1984) and Benton (1993).
It was assigned to Squaloceti by Abel (1914), Abel (1919), Dal Piaz (1929) and Van Deinse (1931); to Odontoceti by Slijper (1936); to Rhabdosteoidea by Muizon (1984); to Platanistoidea by Barnes et al. (1985); to Odontoceti by Abel (1905), Jaekel (1911), Zittel (1925), Rice (1984), Pilleri (1985), Pilleri (1986), Muizon (1988), Carroll (1988) and Benton (1993); and to Delphinoidea by Simpson (1945), Ginsburg and Janvier (1975) and Sach and Heizmann (2001).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1905 | Acrodelphidae Abel p. 123 |
| 1911 | Acrodelphidae Jaekel p. 231 |
| 1914 | Acrodelphinidae Abel p. 221 |
| 1919 | Acrodelphidae Abel p. 765 |
| 1925 | Acrodelphidae Zittel p. 86 |
| 1929 | Acrodelphidae Dal Piaz p. 79 |
| 1931 | Acrodelphidae Van Deinse p. 33 |
| 1936 | Acrodelphidae Slijper p. 553 |
| 1945 | Acrodelphidae Simpson p. 103 |
| 1975 | Acrodelphidae Ginsburg and Janvier p. 84 |
| 1984 | Acrodelphidae Muizon p. 68 |
| 1984 | Acrodelphinidae Rice p. 466 |
| 1985 | Acrodelphidae Barnes et al. p. 25 |
| 1985 | Acrodelphidae Pilleri p. 45 |
| 1986 | Acrodelphidae Pilleri p. 77 |
| 1988 | Acrodelphidae Carroll |
| 1988 | Acrodelphidae Muizon |
| 1993 | Acrodelphinidae Benton p. 762 |
| 2001 | Acrodelphidae Sach and Heizmann p. 42 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available