Delphinida

Delphinida
Temporal range: Oligocene to Recent[1]
A Commerson's dolphin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Infraorder:Cetacea
Parvorder:Odontoceti
Clade:Delphinida
Muizon, 1984

Delphinida is an infraorder of cetaceans in the parvorder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. It includes all modern dolphins, porpoises, and their relatives.[2][1]

White-sided dolphins

References

  1. 1 2 "Infraorder Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org.
  2. ↑ 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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