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Monodon (narwhal)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Monodon Linnaeus p. 75
1762Ceratodon Brisson p. 218
1762Ceratodontis Brisson p. 218
1780Monodon spurius Fabricius
1780Diodon Storr
1804Narwalus Lacépède p. 142
1806Narwhalus Dumeril p. 28
1811Ceratodon Illiger p. 142
1814Narvalus Fischer
1821Monodon Gray p. 310
1822Delphinus anarnacus Desmarest
1825Monodon Gray p. 340
1828Tachynices Brookes p. 44
1829Delphinus spurius Fischer p. 515
1846Monodon Gray p. 29
1850Monodon Gray p. 74
1853Monodon Pictet p. 384
1864Monodon Gray p. 246
1866Monodon Gray p. 310
1867Monodon Flower p. 115
1868Monodon Gray p. 9
1869Monodon Scammon and Cope p. 21
1870Monodon Gray p. 773
1873Monodon Brandt p. 231
1887Monodon Lydekker p. 75
1890Monodon Cope p. 609
1891Monodon Newton p. 78
1902Monodon Hay p. 594
1904Monodon Palmer p. 431
1904Narwalus Palmer p. 448
1904Monodon Trouessart p. 772
1905Monodon Abel p. 129
1912Monodon Turner p. 96
1921Monodon Winge p. 35
1923Monodon Miller p. 40
1925Monodon Zittel p. 87
1928Monodon Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1
1928Monodon Weber p. 389
1930Monodon Hay p. 595
1945Monodon Simpson p. 102
1951Monodon Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 729
1960Monodon Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Monodon Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1973Monodon Kasuya p. 61
1980Monodon Reeves and Tracey p. 1
1988Monodon Carroll
1988Monodon de Muizon p. 162
1989Monodon Stewart and Stewart p. 1
1997Monodon McKenna and Bell p. 389
1998Monodon Rice p. 97
2001Monodon Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2002Monodon Sepkoski
2003Monodon Geisler and Sanders p. 28
2004Monodon Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005Monodon Mead and Brownell p. 735
2008Monodon Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2014Monodon Murakami et al. p. 502 figs. Figure 7
2016Monodon Marx et al. p. 136
2017Monodon Berta p. 164

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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
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyMonodontidae
genusMonodon

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. Monodon Linnaeus 1758 [narwhal]
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Monodon monoceros Linnaeus 1758 [narhwal]
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Invalid names: Ceratodon monodon Pallas 1811 [synonym], Ceratodontis ceratodon Brisson 1762 [synonym], Monodon narhval Borowski 1781 [synonym], Monodon narhwal Blumenbach 1779 [synonym], Narwalus andersonianus Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Narwalus microcephalus Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Narwalus vulgaris Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Tachynices megacephalus Brookes 1828 [synonym]
Invalid names: Ceratodon Brisson 1762 [synonym], Ceratodontis Brisson 1762 [synonym], Delphinus anarnacus Desmarest 1822 [nomen dubium], Diodon Storr 1780 [synonym], Monodon spurius Fabricius 1780 [nomen dubium], Narvalus Fischer 1814 [synonym], Narwalus Lacépède 1804 [synonym], Narwhalus Dumeril 1806 [synonym], Tachynices Brookes 1828 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available