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Inia geoffrensis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Iniidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus geoffrensis was named by Blainville (1817). It is extant.

It was recombined as Delphinorhynchus geoffrensis by Blainville (1817); it was corrected as Delphinus geofroyi by Fischer (1829); it was recombined as Inia geoffroyii by Gray (1846), Gray (1850), Gray (1866) and Gray (1868); it was misspelled as Inia geoffroyensis by Trouessart (1904); it was recombined as Inia geoffrensis by Trouessart (1898), Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Hershkovitz (1966), Cozzuol (1996), Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Hrbek et al. (2014), Pyenson et al. (2015) and Jefferson (2021).

Subspecies

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1812Delphinus rostratus Cuvier
1817Delphinorhynchus geoffrensis Blainville p. 151
1817Delphinus geoffrensis Blainville p. 151
1822Steno pernettyi Demarest p. 513
1823Delphinus frontatus Cuvier p. 278
1823Inia amazonica Spix and Martins p. 1119
1829Delphinus geofroyi Fischer p. 504
1831Delphinus amazonicus Spix and Martius p. 1118
1836Delphinus rostratus Cuvier p. 162
1837Delphinus inia Rapp p. 47
1846Steno frontatus Gray p. 43
1846Steno rostratus Gray p. 43
1846Inia geoffroyii Gray p. 50
1850Steno frontatus Gray p. 128
1850Steno rostratus Gray p. 131
1850Inia geoffroyii Gray p. 135
1852Delphinus rostratus Gervais p. 149
1863Steno frontatus Blyth p. 91
1864Steno rostratus Gray p. 235
1866Steno frontatus Gray p. 213
1866Inia geoffroyii Gray p. 226
1866Steno frontatus Gray p. 233
1866Steno rostratus Gray p. 238
1868Inia geoffroyii Gray p. 4
1868Steno frontatus Gray p. 4
1883Inia amazonicus Pelzeln p. 94
1889Steno rostratus Lutkin p. 54 figs. Pl. 1
1898Inia geoffrensis Trouessart p. 1016
1898Steno frontatus Trouessart p. 1028
1904Inia geoffroyensis Trouessart p. 758
1904Steno frontatus Trouessart p. 764
1912Inia geoffrensis Turner p. 96
1912Steno rostratus Turner p. 139
1949Sotallia pallida Sanborn
1963Inia geoffrensis Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1966Inia geoffrensis Hershkovitz p. 9
1996Inia geoffrensis Cozzuol p. 331
1998Inia geoffrensis Rice
2005Inia geoffrensis Mead and Brownell p. 738
2008Inia geoffrensis Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2011Inia geoffrensis Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2014Inia geoffrensis Hrbek et al. p. 6 figs. Fig. 5
2014Inia araguaiaensis Hrbek et al. p. 8 figs. Fig. 6
2015Inia araguaiaensis Pyenson et al. p. 8
2015Inia geoffrensis Pyenson et al. p. 8
2021Inia geoffrensis Jefferson p. 59

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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
superfamilyInioidea
familyIniidae()
genusIniad'Orbigny 1834
speciesgeoffrensis()

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.

Inia geoffrensis Blainville 1817
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Invalid names: Delphinus amazonicus Spix and Martius 1831 [synonym], Delphinus frontatus Cuvier 1823 [synonym], Delphinus inia Rapp 1837 [synonym], Delphinus rostratus Cuvier 1812 [synonym], Inia amazonica Spix and Martins 1823 [synonym], Inia araguaiaensis Hrbek et al. 2014 [synonym], Sotallia pallida Sanborn 1949 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available