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Sotalia fluviatilis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus fluviatilis was named by Gervais and Deville (1853). It is extant. Its type locality is Rio Maranon, which is in a Holocene fluvial horizon in Peru.

It was recombined as Steno fluviatilis by Gray (1866); it was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia tucuxi by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Sotalia tucuxi fluviatilis by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia pallida by Scheffer and Rice (1963); it was recombined as Sotalia fluviatilis by Hershkovitz (1966), da Silva and Best (1996), Rice (1998), Cunha et al. (2005), Mead and Brownell (2005), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1853Delphinus fluviatilis Gervais p. 148
1853Delphinus fluviatilis Gervais and Deville p. 148
1855Delphinus pallidus Gervais
1855Sotalia pallidus Gervais p. 94 figs. Pl. 19, Fig. 1, 2
1856Sotalia tucuxi Gray p. 158
1857Steno tucuxi Gray
1866Steno tucuxi Gray p. 213
1866Steno (Tucuxa) tucuxi Gray p. 236
1866Steno fluviatilis Gray p. 237
1866Steno pallidus Gray p. 237
1868Steno tucuxi Gray p. 5
1875Sotalia brasiliensis Van Beneden p. 1 figs. Pl. 1
1880Delphinus tuchuschi Van Beneden and Gervais p. 595
1898Sotalia tucuxi Trouessart p. 1027
1898Sotalia brasiliensis Trouessart p. 1028
1904Sotalia brasiliensis Trouessart p. 763
1904Sotalia tucuxi Trouessart p. 763
1904Sotalia tucuxi fluviatilis Trouessart p. 763
1904Sotalia tucuxi pallidus Trouessart p. 763
1963Sotalia brasiliensis Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1963Sotalia pallida Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1966Sotalia fluviatilis Hershkovitz p. 18
1966Sotalia brasiliensis Hershkovitz p. 69
1996Sotalia fluviatilis da Silva and Best p. 1
1998Sotalia fluviatilis Rice p. 104
2005Sotalia fluviatilis Cunha et al.
2005Sotalia fluviatilis Mead and Brownell p. 732
2013Sotalia fluviatilis Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Sotalia fluviatilis Jefferson p. 22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
genusSotalia
speciesfluviatilis(Gervais and Deville 1853)

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.

Sotalia fluviatilis Gervais and Deville 1853
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Invalid names: Delphinus pallidus Gervais 1855 [synonym], Delphinus tuchuschi Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Sotalia brasiliensis Van Beneden 1875 [synonym], Sotalia pallida Gervais 1855 [synonym], Steno tucuxi Gray 1857 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available