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Globicephala macrorhynchus (short-finned pilot whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Globicephalus macrorhynchus was named by Gray (1846). It is extant. Its type specimen is BMNH 1946.8.9.2.

It was recombined as Globiocephalus macrorhynchus by Gray (1850) and Gray (1868); it was recombined as Globicephala macrorhyncha by Sherman (1952) and Scheffer and Rice (1963); it was synonymized subjectively with Globicephala melaena by Hershkovitz (1966); it was misspelled as Globiocephalus macrorhynchus by Gray (1866), Gray (1873), Trouessart (1904) and Turner (1912); it was recombined as Globicephala macrorhynchus by Fraser (1950), Barnes (1977), Vidal (1991), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Delphinus globiceps Temminck figs. Plate 27, fig. 1-4
1846Globicephala sieboldii Gray
1846Globicephalus macrorhynchus Gray p. 33
1846Delphinus fuscus Reichenbach
1850Globiocephalus macrorhynchus Gray p. 90
1850Globiocephalus sieboldii Gray p. 90
1866Globiocephalus macrorhynchus Gray p. 320
1866Globiocephalus sieboldii Gray p. 323
1868Globiocephalus macrorhynchus Gray p. 9
1869Globicephala scammonii Cope
1869Globicephala scammonii Scammon and Cope p. 21
1869Globicephalus scammonii Scammon and Cope p. 21
1871Globicephalus sibo Gray
1871Globiocephalus propinquus Malm
1873Globicephalus macrorhynchus Gray p. 144
1876Globicephala brachypterus Cope
1904Globicephalus brachypterus Trouessart p. 770
1904Globicephalus macrorhynchus Trouessart p. 770
1904Globicephalus scammoni Trouessart p. 770
1904Globiocephalus sieboldi Trouessart p. 770
1912Globicephalus macrorhynchus Turner p. 119
1916Globicephala baereckeii Sellards p. 107 figs. Plate 14
1930Globicephala baereckeii Hay p. 587
1950Globicephala macrorhynchus Fraser p. 49
1952Globicephala baereckeii Sherman p. 99
1952Globicephala macrorhyncha Sherman p. 99
1959Globicephala baereckeii Olsen p. 67
1963Globicephala macrorhyncha Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1963Globicephala scammonii Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1966Globicephala melaena sieboldi Hershkovitz p. 97
1977Globicephala macrorhynchus Barnes
1991Globicephala macrorhynchus Vidal p. 5
1998Globicephala macrorhynchus Rice p. 120
2005Globicephala macrorhynchus Mead and Brownell p. 728
2008Globicephala macrorhynchus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Globicephala macrorhynchus Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Globicephala macrorhynchus Jefferson p. 18

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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
subfamilyGlobicephalinae()
genusGlobicephala
speciesmacrorhynchus(Gray 1846)

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.

Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray 1846 [short-finned pilot whale]
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Invalid names: Delphinus fuscus Reichenbach 1846 [synonym], Globicephala baereckeii Sellards 1916 [synonym], Globicephala scammonii Cope 1869 [synonym], Globicephala sieboldii Gray 1846 [synonym], Globicephalus brachypterus Cope 1876 [synonym], Globicephalus scammonii Scammon and Cope 1869 [synonym], Globicephalus sibo Gray 1871 [synonym], Globiocephalus propinquus Malm 1871 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available