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Feresa (pygmy killer whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Orca (Feresa) Gray
1870Feresa Gray p. 772
1904Feresa Palmer p. 285
1904Feresa Trouessart p. 768
1912Feresa Turner p. 139
1928Feresia Weber p. 389
1960Feresa Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. FIgure 26
1963Feresa Scheffer and Rice p. 8
1973Feresa Kasuya p. 61
1988Feresa de Muizon p. 162
1997Feresa McKenna and Bell p. 386
1998Feresa Rice p. 117
1999Feresa LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Feresa Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2004Feresa Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005Feresa Bianucci p. 340 fig. 7
2005Feresa Mead and Brownell p. 728
2008Feresa Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2009Feresa Aguirre-Fernández et al.
2013Feresa Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2014Feresa Murakami et al. p. 502 figs. Figure 7
2016Feresa Marx et al. p. 140

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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)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyGlobicephalinae()
genusFeresa(Gray 1870)

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.

G. Feresa Gray 1870 [pygmy killer whale]
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Feresa attenuata Gray 1874 [pygmy killer whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus intermedius Gray 1827 [synonym], Feresa occulta Jones and Packard 1956 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available