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Sousa

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Sousa Gray
1904Sousa Palmer p. 637
1960Sousa Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1973Sousa Kasuya p. 61
1988Sousa de Muizon p. 162
1997Sousa McKenna and Bell p. 386
1998Sousa Rice p. 102
1999Sousa LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Sousa Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2001Sousa Jefferson and Karczmarski p. 1
2005Sousa Mead and Brownell p. 732
2008Sousa Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Sousa Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2014Sousa Jefferson and Rosenbaum
2014Sousa Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10
2016Sousa Marx et al. p. 140

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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
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
subfamilyDelphininae
genusSousaGray 1866

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. Sousa Gray 1866
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Sousa chinensis Osbeck 1765 [Chinese white dolphin]
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Invalid names: Delphinus sinensis Desmarest 1822 [synonym], Sotalia borneensis Lydekker 1901 [synonym], Sousa huangi Wang Peilie 1999 [synonym], Sousa lentiginosa Iredale and Troughton 1934 [synonym]
Sousa plumbea Flower 1884
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Invalid names: Delphinus (Steno) lentiginosus Owen 1866 [synonym], Sotalia fergusoni Lydekker 1903 [synonym], Stenopontistes zambezicus Mirando Ribeiro 1936 [synonym]
Sousa sahulensis Jefferson and Rosenbaum 2014
Sousa teuszii Kukenthal 1892
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available