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Globicephalinae

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Globiocephalidae was named by Gray (1866). It is extant. Its type is Globicephalus. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).

It was corrected as Globicephalidae by Gray (1871), Scott (1873) and Nishiwaki (1963); it was reranked as the subfamily Globiocephalinae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872); it was synonymized subjectively with Delphinidae by Mead and Brownell (2005); it was reranked as the subfamily Globicephalinae by Kasuya (1973), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Foekens (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016).

It was assigned to Denticete by Gray (1866); to Delphinoidea by Gray (1871); to Odontocete by Scott (1873); to Delphinoidea by Gray (1868), Gray (1870) and Nishiwaki (1963); and to Delphinidae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Kasuya (1973), Barnes et al. (1985), Vidal (1991), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Foekens (2008), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016).