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Taxon: Superfamily Delphinoidea Gray, 1821 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

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

Subsequent positions

Odontoceti (Parvorder) Flower, 1867 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 383.

Original entries

Questionably †Acrodelphinidae (Family) Abel, 1905, nom. dub.
Questionably †Albireonidae (Family) Barnes, 1984
Questionably †Dalpiazinidae (Family) de Muizon, 1988
Questionably †Hemisyntrachelidae (Family) Slijper, 1936
Questionably †Hesperoinia (Genus) Zei, 1956, nom. dub.
Questionably Iniidae (Family) Gray, 1846
Questionably †Kentriodontidae (Family) Slijper, 1936
Questionably Lipotidae (Family) Zhou, Quian & Li, 1978
Questionably †Odobenocetopsidae (Family) de Muizon, 1993
Questionably †Palaeophocaena (Genus) Abel, 1905
Questionably Pontoporiidae (Family) Gray, 1870
Questionably †Prionodelphis (Genus) Frenguelli, 1922, nom. dub.
Questionably †Protophocaena (Genus) Abel, 1905

Subsequent entries

Delphinidae (Family) Gray, 1821
Monodontidae (Family) Gray, 1821
Phocoenidae (Family) Gray, 1825

Current position

Delphinida ([unranked]) de Muizon, 1984 Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: fig. 4.28.

Alternative positions

Odontoceti (Suborder) Flower, 1867 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 596.
Odontoceti (Parvorder) Flower, 1867 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Historical positions

Odontoceti (Parvorder) Flower, 1867 Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Delphinida ([unranked]) de Muizon, 1984 Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 130, figs. 4.28, 4.37.
Odontoceti (Parvorder) Flower, 1867 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 383. [new position]
Odontoceti (Suborder) Flower, 1867 Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1974: 596.

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 3f;22g;41s;10ss; †2f;37g;7s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 5f;25g;44s; ‡1f;1g;1s; †6f;41g
2020 C.J. Burgin et al.: table 2 (p. 27) [3f]
2016 F.G. Marx et al.: 141 [3f;22g; †2f;33g]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [6f;26g; †6f;41g]
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