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Delphinus (common dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

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).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Delphinus Linnaeus p. 77
1780Delphinus tursio Fabricius
1789Delphinus feres Bonnaterre
1804Delphinus feres Lacépède p. 312
1808Delphinus bonnaterrei Tiedemann
1810Delphinus siculus Rafinesque Schmaltz
1811Delphinus Illiger p. 143
1817Delphinus coronatus Blainville p. 152
1817Delphinus pernettensis Blainville p. 154
1817Delphinus bertini Desmarest
1818Delphinus niger Lacepede
1821Delphinus Gray p. 310
1822Delphinus boryi Desmarest
1822Delphinus epiodon Desmarest
1822Delphinus pernettyi Desmarest
1824Delphinus rhinoceros Quoy and Gaimard
1825Delphinus Gray p. 340
1826Delphinus leucocephalus Lesson
1826Delphinus minimus Lesson
1826Delphinus maculatus Lesson and Garnot
1827Delphinus fabricii Billberg
1827Delphinus nesarnac Lesson
1829Delphinus harlani Fischer
1829Delphinus boryi Fischer p. 505
1829Delphinus coronatus Fischer p. 505
1829Delphinus maculatus Fischer p. 506
1829Delphinus pernettyi Fischer p. 506
1829Delphinus tursio Fischer p. 506
1829Delphinus rhinoceros Fischer p. 509
1829Delphinus leucocephalus Fischer p. 510
1829Delphinus feres Fischer p. 513
1842Delphinus De Kay p. 136
1846Delphinus Gray p. 35
1846Delphinus tursio Gray p. 37
1846Delphinus Gray p. 85
1846Delphinus rappii Reichenbach
1847Delphinus tursio Nilsson p. 602
1850Delphinus Gray p. 105
1850Delphinus tursio Gray p. 109
1852Delphinus tursio Gervais p. 149
1853Delphinus Pictet p. 381
1862Delphinus obtusus Schlegel
1863Delphinus Gray p. 200
1864Delphinus Gray p. 236
1864Delphinus (Clymene) tursio Gray p. 237
1866Steno coronatus Gray p. 238
1866Delphinus Gray p. 239
1866Delphinus Owen p. 17
1867Delphinus Cope p. 144
1867Delphinus Flower p. 115
1868Delphinus Gray p. 5
1868Eudelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 600
1869Delphinus Scammon and Cope p. 21
1870Delphinus Gray p. 772
1871Delphinus Gill p. 125
1872Delphinus Gill p. 95
1874Delphinus Brandt p. II
1880Eudelphinus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 600
1889Delphinus Ameghino p. 885
1890Delphinus Cope p. 609
1894Delphinus Paquier p. 48
1895Delphinus Flores p. 12
1896Delphinus chilensis Philippi
1898Delphinus Trouessart p. 1031
1902Delphinus Hay p. 593
1904Delphinus Palmer p. 220
1904Eudelphinus Palmer p. 274
1904Delphinus Trouessart p. 765
1912Delphinus Turner p. 131
1919Delphinus Abel p. 772
1921Delphinus Winge p. 36
1925Eudelphinus Portis p. 14
1925Delphinus Zittel p. 87
1926Delphinus Oliver Schneider p. 154
1928Delphinus Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1
1928Delphinus Weber p. 389
1929Delphinus Dal Piaz p. 84
1930Delphinus Hay p. 588
1945Delphinus Simpson p. 103
1951Delphinus Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 730
1952Delphinus Sherman p. 99
1960Delphinus Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Delphinus Scheffer and Rice p. 6
1966Stenella pernettyi Hershkovitz p. 40
1966Delphinus Hershkovitz p. 41
1973Delphinus Kasuya p. 61
1977Delphinus Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1
1987Delphinus Pilleri p. 110
1988Delphinus Carroll
1988Delphinus de Muizon p. 162
1991Delphinus Vidal p. 5
1997Delphinus McKenna and Bell p. 384
1998Delphinus Rice p. 111
1999Delphinus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Delphinus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2002Delphinus Sepkoski
2004Delphinus Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005Delphinus Mead and Brownell p. 727
2008Delphinus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2008Delphinus Uhen et al. p. 592
2008Delphinus Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 218
2009Delphinus Fordyce and Roberts p. 553
2010Delphinus Canto et al. p. 20
2011Delphinus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2013Delphinus Perrin et al. p. 571
2014Delphinus Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10
2016Delphinus Marx et al. p. 140

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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
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyDelphininae
genusDelphinus

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. 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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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