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Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus (Grampus) heavisidii was named by Gray (1828). It is extant.

It was recombined as Delphinus heavisidii by Gray (1828), Gray (1846) and Gray (1850); it was recombined as Eutropia heavisidii by Gray (1866) and Gray (1868); it was recombined as Tursio heavisidii by Gray (1866); it was recombined as Cephalorhynchus heavisidei by Trouessart (1904), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963) and Hershkovitz (1966); it was recombined as Cephalorhynchus heavisidii by Rice (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Perrin et al. (2013) and Jefferson (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Delphinus heavisidii Gray
1829Delphinus capensis Dussumier
1836Delphinus cephalorhynchus Cuvier
1836Delphinus hastatus Cuvier
1846Delphinus heavisidii Gray p. 36
1850Delphinus heavisidii Gray p. 107
1866Eutropia heavisidii Gray p. 215
1866Tursio heavisidii Gray p. 263
1868Eutropia heavisidii Gray p. 6
1873Delphinus tridens Castelnau
1873Orca capensis Van Beneden
1904Cephalorhynchus heavisidei Trouessart p. 768
1960Cephalorhynchus heavisidei Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Cephalorhynchus heavisidei Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1966Cephalorhynchus heavisidei Hershkovitz p. 76
1998Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Rice p. 101
2005Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Mead and Brownell p. 727
2008Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 2
2013Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2021Cephalorhynchus heavisidii Jefferson p. 53

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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)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyLissodelphininae()
genusCephalorhynchusGray 1846
speciesheavisidii(Gray 1828)

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.

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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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available