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Cephalorhynchus
Taxonomy
Cephalorhynchus was named by Gray (1846). It is extant. Its type is Cephalorhynchus commersoni. It was considered monophyletic by Weber (1928).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Gill (1872), Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Cephalorhynchinae by Fraser and Purves (1960), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Lissodelphinae by LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Murakami et al. (2014); and to Lissodelphininae by Perrin et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Gill (1872), Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Cephalorhynchinae by Fraser and Purves (1960), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Lissodelphinae by LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Murakami et al. (2014); and to Lissodelphininae by Perrin et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016).
Species
C. commersoni (syn. Lagenorhynchus burmeisteri, Lagenorhynchus floweri) (type species), C. eutropia (syn. Delphinus lunatus, Tursio platyrrhinus, Phocaena albiventris, Eutropia dickiei), C. heavisidii (syn. Delphinus cephalorhynchus, Delphinus hastatus, Delphinus tridens, Orca capensis, Delphinus capensis), C. hectori (syn. Electra clancula, C. albifrons, C. maui), Phocoena obtusata