Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Delphinidae Gray 1821

Description

Family Delphinidae Gray, 1821. London Med. Repos., 15(1):310.

COMMENTS: Includes Globicephalidae, Grampidelphidae, Stenidae, Orcinae, Lissodelphinae, Cephalorhynchinae and Delphininae (Fraser and Purves, 1960); see Kasuya (1973), Mead (1975), Barnes (1978). Also includes Orcaella (see Heyning, 1989a and Lint et al., 1990), sometimes put in the family Monodontidae.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 351, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Family
Delphinidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Cetacea
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Delphinidae Gray, 1821 sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993