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Taxon: Suborder Cetacea Brisson, 1762 - cetaceans (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla

Original position

Cete (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368.

Original entries

†*Archaeoceti* (Infraorder) Flower, 1883		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368.
*Autoceta* (Infraorder) Haeckel, 1866		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 371.
†*Chonecetus* (Genus) Russell, 1968		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368.
†*Ferecetotherium* (Genus) Mchedlidze, 1970		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368.

Current position

Whippomorpha (Clade) Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa 1999

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368. [new rank] [indirect]

Alternative positions

Cete (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368. [new rank]

Historical positions

Cete (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 368. [new rank]

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	†5f;31g;11s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[10f;39g;79s; ‡1f;1g; †18f;241g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[11f;40g; †15f;216g]

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