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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
| Clade: | Delphinida |
| Superfamily: | Delphinoidea Flower, 1865 |
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Delphinoidea are the largest group of toothed whales, including 66 genera in 6 families. The largest living member of the superfamily is the orca, which can reach 6 tons, while the smallest is the vaquita.
Taxonomy
Delphinoidea is a very diverse clade. It includes all extant oceanic dolphins, as well as various extinct species, like the unique Odobenocetops.2 The three extant families within Delphinoidea are Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins), Monodontidae (beluga and narwhal) and Phocoenidae (porpoises).3
Based on McGowen et al., 20194
Superfamily Delphinoidea
- Family †Albireonidae
- Genus Albireo
- Family Delphinidae
- Subfamily Delphininae
- Subfamily Globicephalinae
- Genus †Astadelphis
- Genus Feresa
- Genus Globicephala
- Genus Grampus
- Genus Orcaella
- Genus Peponocephala
- Genus Pseudorca
- Genus Steno
- Subfamily Lissodelphininae
- Genus Aethalodelphis
- Genus Cephalorhynchus
- Genus Lissodelphis
- Subfamily Orcininae
- Genus †Arimidelphis
- Genus †Eodelphinus
- Genus †Hemisyntrachelus
- Genus Orcinus
- Subfamily incertae sedis
- Genus †Australodelphis
- Genus †Etruridelphis
- Genus Lagenorhynchus
- Genus Leucopleurus
- Genus †Sinanodelphis
- Family †Kentriodontidae
- Subfamily Kentriodontinae
- Genus Belonodelphis
- Genus Delphinodon
- Genus Heterodelphis
- Genus Incacetus?
- Genus Kentriodon
- Genus Lamprolithax
- Genus Loxolithax
- Genus Macrokentriodon
- Genus Microphocaena
- Genus Rudicetus
- Genus Tagicetus
- Subfamily Lophocetinae
- Genus Hadrodelphis
- Genus Liolithax
- Genus Lophocetus
- Genus Platyvercus5
- Subfamily Pithanodelphininae?
- Genus Atocetus?
- Genus Leptodelphis?
- Genus Pithanodelphis?
- Genus Sarmatodelphis?
- Genus Sophianacetus?
- Subfamily Kampholophinae?
- Genus Kampholophos?
- Subfamily Kentriodontinae
- Family Monodontidae
- Subfamily Delphinapterinae
- Genus †Bohaskaia
- Genus Delphinapterus
- Genus † Denebola
- Subfamily Monodontinae
- Genus Monodon
- Subfamily Delphinapterinae
- Family † Odobenocetopsidae
- Genus Odobenocetops
- Family Phocoenidae
- Genus †Archaeophocaena
- Genus †Australithax
- Genus †Brabocetus
- Genus †Haborophocoena
- Genus †Lomacetus
- Genus †Miophocaena
- Genus Neophocaena
- Genus †Numataphocoena
- Genus Phocoena
- Genus Phocoenoides
- Genus †Piscolithax
- Genus †Pterophocaena
- Genus †Salumiphocaena
- Genus †Semirostrum
- Genus †Septemtriocetus
- Familia incertae sedis
- Genus †Graamocetus
- Genus †Miodelphis
- Genus †Nannolithax
- Genus †Oedolithax
- Genus †Palaeophocaena
- Genus †Platylithax
- Genus †Protodelphinus
References
References
- The Paleobiology Database
- Muizon, Christian de; Domning, Daryl P. (2002). "The anatomy of Odobenocetops (Delphinoidea, Mammalia), the walrus-like dolphin from the Pliocene of Peru and its palaeobiological implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (4): 423–452. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00015.x. ISSN 1096-3642.
- Westbury, Michael V.; Cabrera, Andrea A.; Rey-Iglesia, Alba; De Cahsan, Binia; Duchêne, David A.; Hartmann, Stefanie; Lorenzen, Eline D. (September 2023). "A genomic assessment of the marine-speciation paradox within the toothed whale superfamily Delphinoidea". Molecular Ecology. 32 (17): 4829–4843. Bibcode:2023MolEc..32.4829W. doi:10.1111/mec.17069. hdl:11370/9d187eb4-ca12-45b0-a0a4-49fe08b3dd03. ISSN 0962-1083. PMID 37448145.
- McGowen, Michael R; Tsagkogeorga, Georgia; Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; dos Reis, Mario; Struebig, Monika; Deaville, Robert; Jepson, Paul D; Jarman, Simon; Polanowski, Andrea; Morin, Phillip A; Rossiter, Stephen J (2019-10-21). "Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 479–501. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz068. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 7164366. PMID 31633766.
- Guo, Z.; Kohno, N. (February 2023). "An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography". PLOS ONE. 18 (2) e0280218. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1880218G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280218. PMC 9931143. PMID 36791148.