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Monodontidae
Gray, 1821
- white whales
(mammal)
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Delphinoidea (Superfamily)
..†Albireonidae (Family)
..Delphinidae (Family) - oceanic dolphins
..†Lophocetinae (Subfamily)
..†Odobenocetopsidae (Family)
..†Palaeophocaena (Genus)
..Phocoenidae (Family) - porpoises
..†Pithanodelphininae (Subfamily)
..†Protodelphinus (Genus)
..†Sinanodelphis (Genus)
..Monodontidae (Family) - white whales
....†Bohaskaia (Genus)
....Delphinapterinae (Subfamily)
....Monodontinae (Subfamily) - narwhal
Authorship
Original name
:
Gray, 1821:310.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Monodontinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1821
Type
:
Monodon
(Genus)
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016
: 136.
[inferred]
Variants
Different rank
:
Monodontinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1821
Ref:
A.F. DeBlase, 1982
: 1038.
Homonyms
Junior homonym
:
Monodontinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1857, nom. illeg.
Ref:
P. Bouchet et al., 2017
: 158.
Junior homonym
:
Monodontini
(Tribe)
Gray, 1857, nom. illeg.
Ref:
P. Bouchet et al., 2017
: 158.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Including
:
Delphinapteridae
(Family)
(Weber, 1904)
Ref:
R.L. Carroll, 1988
: 643.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
narwals
:
grondeldolfijnen
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
white whales
:
beluga and narwhal
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1 Feb 2024