Delphinida
| Delphinida | |
|---|---|
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| A Commerson's dolphin | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
| Clade: | Delphinida Muizon, 1984 |
Delphinida is an clade of cetaceans in the parvorder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. It includes all modern oceanic dolphins, porpoises, and their relatives, such as Lipotidae[2] and Iniidae[3] .[1] [4][5]
References
- ^ a b "Infraorder Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org.
- ^ "Family Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978 (toothed whale)". PBDB.
- ^ "Family Iniidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
- ^ "Family Platanistidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
- ^ Muizon, C. (1984). "Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou) II: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Pliocene inferieur de Sud-Sacaco". Institut Francais d'Etudes Andines Editions Recherche sur les Civilizations Memoire. 50: 1–188.
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