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Grampus

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus (Grampus) was named by Gray (1828). It is extant. Its type is Grampus griseus. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).

It was reranked as Grampus by Hamilton (1837), Gray (1846), Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1863), Gray (1864), Gray (1866), Flower (1867), Gray (1868), Scammon and Cope (1869), Cope (1890), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Winge (1921), Weber (1928), Dal Piaz (1929), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Mead and Brownell (2005), Bianucci (2005), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013), Murakami et al. (2014) and Marx et al. (2016).

It was assigned to Delphinus by Gray (1828); to Delphinina by Gray (1846); to Phocaenina by Gray (1864); to Belugidae by Gray (1868); to Globicipites by Winge (1921); to Delphininae by Flower (1867), Weber (1928), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), de Muizon (1988), Vidal (1991) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Orcininae by Bianucci (2005); to Delphinidae by Hamilton (1837), Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1863), Gray (1866), Scammon and Cope (1869), Cope (1890), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Dal Piaz (1929), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Sherman (1952), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Globicephalinae by Kasuya (1973), McKenna and Bell (1997), LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Aguirre-Fernández et al. (2009), Geisler et al. (2011), Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Delphinus (Grampus) Gray p. 1
1837Grampus Hamilton p. 233
1846Grampus Gray p. 30
1850Grampus Gray p. 81
1863Grampus Gray p. 201
1864Grampus Gray p. 245
1866Grampus Gray p. 295
1867Grampus Flower p. 115
1868Grampus Gray p. 9
1869Grampus Scammon and Cope p. 21
1873Grayius Scott
1890Grampus Cope p. 609
1904Grampus Palmer p. 299
1904Grampus Trouessart p. 769
1912Grampus Turner p. 120
1921Grampus Winge p. 36
1928Grampus Weber p. 389
1929Grampus Dal Piaz p. 85
1933Grampidelphis Iredale and Troughton
1945Grampus Simpson p. 103
1951Grampus Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 741
1952Grampus Sherman p. 99
1960Grampus Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Grampus Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1973Grampus Kasuya p. 61
1988Grampus de Muizon p. 162
1991Grampus Vidal p. 5
1997Grampus McKenna and Bell p. 386
1998Grampus Rice p. 116
1999Grampus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Grampus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2004Delphinus (Grampus) Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005Grampus Bianucci p. 340
2005Grampus Mead and Brownell p. 728
2009Grampus Aguirre-Fernández et al.
2011Grampus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2013Grampus Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2014Grampus Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10
2016Grampus Marx et al. p. 140

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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)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyGlobicephalinae()
genusGrampus(Gray 1828)

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. Grampus Gray 1828
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Grampus griseus Cuvier 1812 [Risso's dolphin]
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Invalid names: Delphinus aires Cuvier 1812 [synonym], Delphinus rissoanus Demarest 1822 [synonym], Globicephalus rissii Risso 1826 [synonym], Grampidelphis exilis Iredale and Troughton 1933 [synonym], Grampidelphis kuzira Iredale and Troughton 1933 [synonym], Grampus cuvieri Gray 1846 [synonym], Grampus richardsoni Gray 1850 [synonym], Grampus richardsonii Gray 1850 [synonym], Grampus sakamata Gray 1846 [synonym], Grampus sowerbianus Fischer 1881 [synonym], Grampus stearnsii Dall 1873 [synonym]
Invalid names: Grampidelphis Iredale and Troughton 1933 [synonym], Grayius Scott 1873 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available