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Sotalia guianensis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus guianensis was named by Van Beneden (1864). It is extant. Its type locality is Maroni River, which is in a Holocene fluvial horizon in Suriname.

It was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia fluviatilis by da Silva and Best (1996) and Mead and Brownell (2005); it was recombined as Sotalia guianensis by Van Beneden (1863), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Cunha et al. (2005) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1863Sotalia guianensis Van Beneden p. 33 figs. Pl. 1
1864Delphinus guianensis Van Beneden p. 27 figs. Fig. p. 32, Fig. p. 33, fig. p. 24, Plat
1866Sotalia guianensis Gray p. 401
1868Sotalia guianensis Gray p. 6
1898Sotalia guianensis Trouessart p. 1027
1904Sotalia guianensis Trouessart p. 763
1963Sotalia guianensis Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1966Sotalia guianensis Hershkovitz p. 20
2005Sotalia guianensis Cunha et al.
2021Sotalia guianensis Jefferson p. 23

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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
genusSotalia
speciesguianensis(Van Beneden 1864)

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.

Sotalia guianensis Van Beneden 1864
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available