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Cephalorhynchus eutropia

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus eutropia was named by Gray (1846). It is extant. Its type specimen is BM(NH) 936a-49.5.25.2, a skull. Its type locality is Straits of Magellan, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Argentina.

It was replaced with Eutropia dickiei by Gray (1866); it was recombined as Tursio eutropia by Gray (1866); it was recombined as Cephalorhynchus eutropia by Trouessart (1904), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1826Delphinus lunatus Lesson
1846Delphinus eutropia Gray p. 1 figs. Plate 34
1849Delphinus eutropia Gray p. 1
1850Delphinus eutropia Gray p. 111
1866Eutropia dickiei Gray p. 145
1866Tursio eutropia Gray p. 262
1868Eutropia dickiei Gray p. 6
1893Phocaena albiventris Perez Canto p. 727
1895Tursio platyrrhinus Philippi
1896Tursio platyrrhinus Perez Canto
1904Cephalorhynchus albiventris Trouessart p. 768
1904Cephalorhynchus eutropia Trouessart p. 768
1904Cephalorhynchus platyrhinus Trouessart p. 768
1963Cephalorhynchus eutropia Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1966Cephalorhynchus eutropia Hershkovitz p. 74
1998Cephalorhynchus eutropia Rice p. 101
2005Cephalorhynchus eutropia Mead and Brownell p. 727
2008Cephalorhynchus eutropia Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Cephalorhynchus eutropia Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Cephalorhynchus eutropia Jefferson p. 54

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyLissodelphininae()
genusCephalorhynchusGray 1846
specieseutropia()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Invalid names: Delphinus lunatus Lesson 1826 [synonym], Eutropia dickiei Gray 1866 [synonym], Phocaena albiventris Perez Canto 1893 [synonym], Tursio platyrrhinus Philippi 1895 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available