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Sotalia
Taxonomy
Sotalia was named by Gray (1866). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Weber (1928).
It was assigned to Delphinina by Gray (1868); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Delphininae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963) and de Muizon (1988); to Cephalorhynchinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Steninae by Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Stenoninae by LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Perrin et al. (2013); and to Delphinidae by Gray (1870), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Hershkovitz (1966), da Silva and Best (1996), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Delphinina by Gray (1868); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Delphininae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Weber (1928), Scheffer and Rice (1963) and de Muizon (1988); to Cephalorhynchinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Steninae by Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Stenoninae by LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Perrin et al. (2013); and to Delphinidae by Gray (1870), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Hershkovitz (1966), da Silva and Best (1996), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1866 | Steno (Tucuxa) Gray p. 213 |
| 1866 | Sotalia Gray p. 401 |
| 1866 | Sotalia maculiventer Owen p. 21 figs. Pl. 6, Fig. 1,2 |
| 1868 | Sotalia Gray p. 6 |
| 1870 | Sotalia Gray p. 772 |
| 1871 | Sotalia Gill p. 125 |
| 1872 | Sotalia Gill p. 95 |
| 1898 | Sotalia maculiventer Trouessart p. 1027 |
| 1904 | Sotalia Palmer p. 637 |
| 1904 | Sotalia Trouessart p. 763 |
| 1904 | Sotalia maculiventer Trouessart p. 763 |
| 1912 | Sotalia Turner p. 139 |
| 1928 | Sotalia Weber p. 389 |
| 1945 | Sotalia Simpson p. 103 |
| 1951 | Sotalia Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 733 |
| 1963 | Sotalia Scheffer and Rice p. 7 |
| 1966 | Sotalia Hershkovitz p. 12 |
| 1973 | Sotalia Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1988 | Sotalia de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1996 | Sotalia da Silva and Best p. 1 |
| 1997 | Sotalia McKenna and Bell p. 386 |
| 1998 | Sotalia Rice p. 104 |
| 1999 | Sotalia LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2001 | Sotalia Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2004 | Sotalia Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2005 | Sotalia Mead and Brownell p. 732 |
| 2013 | Sotalia Perrin et al. p. 571 |
| 2014 | Sotalia Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10 |
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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. Sotalia Gray 1866
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Sotalia fluviatilis Gervais and Deville 1853
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Invalid names: Delphinus pallidus Gervais 1855 [synonym], Delphinus tuchuschi Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Sotalia brasiliensis Van Beneden 1875 [synonym], Sotalia pallida Gervais 1855 [synonym], Steno tucuxi Gray 1857 [synonym]
Sotalia guianensis Van Beneden 1864
Invalid names: Sotalia maculiventer Owen 1866 [nomen dubium], Tucuxa Gray 1866 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available