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Delphinus (common dolphin)
Taxonomy
Delphinus was named by Linnaeus (1758) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio-l R]. It is extant. Its type is Phocoena phocoena. It is the type genus of Delphininae. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Cete by Linnaeus (1758); to Cete by Illiger (1811); to Delphinina by Gray (1846); to Delphinina by Gray (1825), Gray (1864) and Gray (1868); to Delphinoceti by Abel (1919); to Delphini by Winge (1921); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Delphinidae by Gray (1821), De Kay (1842), Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Pictet (1853), Gray (1863), Owen (1866), Gray (1866), Cope (1867), Scammon and Cope (1869), Gray (1870), Ameghino (1889), Cope (1890), Paquier (1894), Flores (1895), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Oliver Schneider (1926), Kellogg (1928), Dal Piaz (1929), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Carroll (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Canto et al. (2010) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Delphininae by Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Brandt (1874), Hay (1902), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Cete by Linnaeus (1758); to Cete by Illiger (1811); to Delphinina by Gray (1846); to Delphinina by Gray (1825), Gray (1864) and Gray (1868); to Delphinoceti by Abel (1919); to Delphini by Winge (1921); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Delphinidae by Gray (1821), De Kay (1842), Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Pictet (1853), Gray (1863), Owen (1866), Gray (1866), Cope (1867), Scammon and Cope (1869), Gray (1870), Ameghino (1889), Cope (1890), Paquier (1894), Flores (1895), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Oliver Schneider (1926), Kellogg (1928), Dal Piaz (1929), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Hershkovitz (1966), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Carroll (1988), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Canto et al. (2010) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Delphininae by Flower (1867), Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Brandt (1874), Hay (1902), Weber (1928), Hay (1930), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Buchholtz and Schur (2004), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
Species
D. baltringii, D. bertini, D. bonnaterrei, D. boryi, D. brevidens, D. chilensis, D. coronatus, D. delannoy, D. delphis (syn. Eudelphinus tasmaniensis, D. capensis, D. forsteri, D. albimanus, D. fulvifasciatus, D. vulgaris, Lagenorhynchus decastelnau, D. algeriensis, D. tropicalis, D. janira, D. microps, D. bairdii, D. moorei, D. pomeegra, D. dussumieri, D. loriger, D. walkeri, D. major, D. frithii, D. longirostris, D. ponticus, D. zelandae, Eudelphinus pliocaenus, D. sao, D. novaezelandiae, D. fluvofasciatus), D. dewaeli, D. epiodon, D. fabricii, D. feres, D. harlani, D. leucocephalus, D. maculatus, D. minimus, D. nesarnac, D. niger, D. obtusus, D. pernettyi, D. rappii, D. rhinoceros, D. rikuzenensis, D. risso, D. siculus, D. taramelli, D. tursio, D. wasii, Eudelphinus compressus
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1758 | Delphinus Linnaeus p. 77 |
1780 | Delphinus tursio Fabricius |
1789 | Delphinus feres Bonnaterre |
1804 | Delphinus feres Lacépède p. 312 |
1808 | Delphinus bonnaterrei Tiedemann |
1810 | Delphinus siculus Rafinesque Schmaltz |
1811 | Delphinus Illiger p. 143 |
1817 | Delphinus coronatus Blainville p. 152 |
1817 | Delphinus pernettensis Blainville p. 154 |
1817 | Delphinus bertini Desmarest |
1818 | Delphinus niger Lacepede |
1821 | Delphinus Gray p. 310 |
1822 | Delphinus boryi Desmarest |
1822 | Delphinus epiodon Desmarest |
1822 | Delphinus pernettyi Desmarest |
1824 | Delphinus rhinoceros Quoy and Gaimard |
1825 | Delphinus Gray p. 340 |
1826 | Delphinus leucocephalus Lesson |
1826 | Delphinus minimus Lesson |
1826 | Delphinus maculatus Lesson and Garnot |
1827 | Delphinus fabricii Billberg |
1827 | Delphinus nesarnac Lesson |
1829 | Delphinus harlani Fischer |
1829 | Delphinus boryi Fischer p. 505 |
1829 | Delphinus coronatus Fischer p. 505 |
1829 | Delphinus maculatus Fischer p. 506 |
1829 | Delphinus pernettyi Fischer p. 506 |
1829 | Delphinus tursio Fischer p. 506 |
1829 | Delphinus rhinoceros Fischer p. 509 |
1829 | Delphinus leucocephalus Fischer p. 510 |
1829 | Delphinus feres Fischer p. 513 |
1842 | Delphinus De Kay p. 136 |
1846 | Delphinus Gray p. 35 |
1846 | Delphinus tursio Gray p. 37 |
1846 | Delphinus Gray p. 85 |
1846 | Delphinus rappii Reichenbach |
1847 | Delphinus tursio Nilsson p. 602 |
1850 | Delphinus Gray p. 105 |
1850 | Delphinus tursio Gray p. 109 |
1852 | Delphinus tursio Gervais p. 149 |
1853 | Delphinus Pictet p. 381 |
1862 | Delphinus obtusus Schlegel |
1863 | Delphinus Gray p. 200 |
1864 | Delphinus Gray p. 236 |
1864 | Delphinus (Clymene) tursio Gray p. 237 |
1866 | Steno coronatus Gray p. 238 |
1866 | Delphinus Gray p. 239 |
1866 | Delphinus Owen p. 17 |
1867 | Delphinus Cope p. 144 |
1867 | Delphinus Flower p. 115 |
1868 | Delphinus Gray p. 5 |
1868 | Eudelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 600 |
1869 | Delphinus Scammon and Cope p. 21 |
1870 | Delphinus Gray p. 772 |
1871 | Delphinus Gill p. 125 |
1872 | Delphinus Gill p. 95 |
1874 | Delphinus Brandt p. II |
1880 | Eudelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 600 |
1889 | Delphinus Ameghino p. 885 |
1890 | Delphinus Cope p. 609 |
1894 | Delphinus Paquier p. 48 |
1895 | Delphinus Flores p. 12 |
1896 | Delphinus chilensis Philippi |
1898 | Delphinus Trouessart p. 1031 |
1902 | Delphinus Hay p. 593 |
1904 | Delphinus Palmer p. 220 |
1904 | Eudelphinus Palmer p. 274 |
1904 | Delphinus Trouessart p. 765 |
1912 | Delphinus Turner p. 131 |
1919 | Delphinus Abel p. 772 |
1921 | Delphinus Winge p. 36 |
1925 | Eudelphinus Portis p. 14 |
1925 | Delphinus Zittel p. 87 |
1926 | Delphinus Oliver Schneider p. 154 |
1928 | Delphinus Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1 |
1928 | Delphinus Weber p. 389 |
1929 | Delphinus Dal Piaz p. 84 |
1930 | Delphinus Hay p. 588 |
1945 | Delphinus Simpson p. 103 |
1951 | Delphinus Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 730 |
1952 | Delphinus Sherman p. 99 |
1960 | Delphinus Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
1963 | Delphinus Scheffer and Rice p. 6 |
1966 | Stenella pernettyi Hershkovitz p. 40 |
1966 | Delphinus Hershkovitz p. 41 |
1973 | Delphinus Kasuya p. 61 |
1977 | Delphinus Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
1987 | Delphinus Pilleri p. 110 |
1988 | Delphinus Carroll |
1988 | Delphinus de Muizon p. 162 |
1991 | Delphinus Vidal p. 5 |
1997 | Delphinus McKenna and Bell p. 384 |
1998 | Delphinus Rice p. 111 |
1999 | Delphinus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
2001 | Delphinus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
2002 | Delphinus Sepkoski |
2004 | Delphinus Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
2005 | Delphinus Mead and Brownell p. 727 |
2008 | Delphinus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
2008 | Delphinus Uhen et al. p. 592 |
2008 | Delphinus Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 218 |
2009 | Delphinus Fordyce and Roberts p. 553 |
2010 | Delphinus Canto et al. p. 20 |
2011 | Delphinus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
2013 | Delphinus Perrin et al. p. 571 |
2014 | Delphinus Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10 |
2016 | Delphinus Marx et al. p. 140 |
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G. Delphinus Linnaeus 1758 [common dolphin]
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†Delphinus baltringii Van Beneden 1876
†Delphinus brevidens Dubreuil and Gervais 1849
†Delphinus delannoy Van Beneden 1860
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus 1758 [short-beaked common dolphin]
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Delphinus delphis delphis Tomilin 1957
Invalid names: Delphinus albimanus Peale 1848 [synonym], Delphinus algeriensis Loche 1860 [synonym], Delphinus bairdii Dall 1873 [synonym], Delphinus capensis Gray 1828 [synonym], Delphinus dussumieri Blanford 1891 [synonym], Delphinus fluvofasciatus Wagner 1853 [synonym], Delphinus forsteri Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus frithii Blyth 1859 [synonym], Delphinus fulvifasciatus Wagner 1846 [synonym], Delphinus janira Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus longirostris Cuvier 1829 [synonym], Delphinus loriger Wiegmann 1846 [synonym], Delphinus major Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus microps Burmeister 1866 [synonym], Delphinus moorei Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus novaezelandiae Quoy and Gainard 1830 [synonym], Delphinus pomeegra Owen 1866 [synonym], Delphinus ponticus Barabash 1935 [synonym], Delphinus sao Gray 1846 [synonym], Delphinus tropicalis van Bree 1971 [synonym], Delphinus vulgaris Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Delphinus walkeri Gray 1866 [synonym], Delphinus zelandae Gray 1843 [synonym], Eudelphinus pliocaenus Gervais 1859 [synonym], Eudelphinus tasmaniensis Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Lagenorhynchus decastelnau Van Beneden 1873 [synonym]
†Delphinus dewaeli Vanden Broeck 1874
†Delphinus rikuzenensis Hatai et al. 1963
Delphinus risso Risso 1826
†Delphinus taramelli de Zigno 1872
†Delphinus wasii Vanden Broeck 1874
Invalid names: Delphinus bertini Desmarest 1817 [nomen dubium], Delphinus bonnaterrei Tiedemann 1808 [nomen dubium], Delphinus boryi Desmarest 1822 [nomen dubium], Delphinus chilensis Philippi 1896 [nomen dubium], Delphinus coronatus Blainville 1817 [nomen dubium], Delphinus epiodon Desmarest 1822 [nomen dubium], Delphinus fabricii Billberg 1827 [nomen dubium], Delphinus feres Bonnaterre 1789 [nomen dubium], Delphinus harlani Fischer 1829 [nomen dubium], Delphinus leucocephalus Lesson 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus maculatus Lesson and Garnot 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus minimus Lesson 1826 [nomen dubium], Delphinus nesarnac Lesson 1827 [nomen dubium], Delphinus niger Lacepede 1818 [nomen dubium], Delphinus obtusus Schlegel 1862 [nomen dubium], Delphinus pernettyi Blainville 1817 [nomen oblitum], Delphinus rappii Reichenbach 1846 [nomen dubium], Delphinus rhinoceros Quoy and Gaimard 1824 [nomen dubium], Delphinus siculus Rafinesque Schmaltz 1810 [nomen dubium], Delphinus tursio Fabricius 1780 [nomen dubium], Eudelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available