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Cephalorhynchus
Taxonomy
Cephalorhynchus was named by Gray (1846). It is extant. Its type is Cephalorhynchus commersoni. It was considered monophyletic by Weber (1928).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Gill (1872), Weber (1928) and Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Cephalorhynchinae by Fraser and Purves (1960), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Lissodelphinae by LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Lissodelphininae by Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Delphininae by Gill (1872), Weber (1928) and Scheffer and Rice (1963); to Sotaliinae by Kasuya (1973); to Cephalorhynchinae by Fraser and Purves (1960), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Buchholtz and Schur (2004); to Lissodelphinae by LeDuc et al. (1999), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Simpson (1945), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Lissodelphininae by Perrin et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016).
Species
C. commersoni (syn. Lagenorhynchus burmeisteri, Lagenorhynchus floweri) (type species), C. eutropia (syn. Delphinus lunatus, Tursio platyrrhinus, Phocaena albiventris, Eutropia dickiei), C. heavisidii (syn. Delphinus tridens, Delphinus cephalorhynchus, Delphinus hastatus, Orca capensis, Delphinus capensis), C. hectori (syn. C. albifrons, C. maui, Electra clancula), Phocoena obtusata
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1846 | Cephalorhynchus Gray p. 36 |
1862 | Eutropia Gray p. 145 |
1868 | Eutropia Gray p. 6 |
1870 | Eutropia Gray p. 772 |
1872 | Cephalorhynchus Gill p. 95 |
1893 | Phocoena obtusata Philippi |
1904 | Cephalorhynchus Trouessart p. 768 |
1904 | Cephalorhynchus obtusata Trouessart p. 768 |
1912 | Cephalorhynchus Turner p. 107 |
1928 | Cephalorhynchus Weber p. 389 |
1945 | Cephalorhynchus Simpson p. 104 |
1960 | Cephalorhynchus Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
1963 | Cephalorhynchus Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
1973 | Cephalorhynchus Kasuya p. 61 |
1988 | Cephalorhynchus de Muizon p. 162 |
1997 | Cephalorhynchus McKenna and Bell p. 386 |
1998 | Cephalorhynchus Rice p. 101 |
1999 | Cephalorhynchus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2 |
2001 | Cephalorhynchus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
2004 | Cephalorhynchus Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1 |
2005 | Cephalorhynchus Mead and Brownell p. 726 |
2008 | Cephalorhynchus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2 |
2013 | Cephalorhynchus Perrin et al. p. 571 |
2014 | Cephalorhynchus Murakami et al. p. 507 |
2016 | Cephalorhynchus Marx et al. p. 141 |
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G. Cephalorhynchus Gray 1846
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Cephalorhynchus commersoni Lacépède 1804
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Invalid names: Lagenorhynchus burmeisteri Moreno 1892 [synonym], Lagenorhynchus floweri Moreno 1892 [synonym]
Cephalorhynchus eutropia Gray 1846
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Invalid names: Delphinus lunatus Lesson 1826 [synonym], Eutropia dickiei Gray 1866 [synonym], Phocaena albiventris Perez Canto 1893 [synonym], Tursio platyrrhinus Philippi 1895 [synonym]
Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Gray 1828
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Invalid names: Delphinus capensis Dussumier 1829 [synonym], Delphinus cephalorhynchus Cuvier 1836 [synonym], Delphinus hastatus Cuvier 1836 [synonym], Delphinus tridens Castelnau 1873 [synonym], Orca capensis Van Beneden 1873 [synonym]
Cephalorhynchus hectori Van Beneden 1881
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Invalid names: Cephalorhynchus albifrons True 1889 [synonym], Cephalorhynchus maui Baker et al. 2002 [synonym], Electra clancula Hector 1873 [replaced]
Invalid names: Eutropia Gray 1862 [synonym], Phocoena obtusata Philippi 1893 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available