Delphinoidea is the largest group of toothed whales with 66 genera in 6 families. The largest living member of the superfamily is the killer whale, which can reach 6 tons, while the smallest is the vaquita.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
| Clade: | Delphinida |
| Superfamily: | Delphinoidea Flower, 1865 |
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Taxonomy edit
Based on McGowen et al., 2019[2]
Superfamily Delphinoidea
- Family †Albireonidae
- Genus Albireo
- Family Delphinidae
- Subfamily Delphininae
- Subfamily Globicephalinae
- Genus †Astadelphis
- Genus Feresa
- Genus Globicephala
- Genus Grampus
- Genus Orcaella
- Genus Peponocephala
- Genus Pseudorca
- Genus Steno
- Subfamily Lissodelphininae
- Genus Cephalorhynchus
- Genus Lissodelphis
- Subfamily Orcininae
- Genus †Arimidelphis
- Genus †Eodelphinus
- Genus †Hemisyntrachelus
- Genus Orcinus
- Subfamily incertae sedis
- Genus †Australodelphis
- Genus †Etruridelphis
- Genus Lagenorhynchus
- Genus †Sinanodelphis
- Family †Kentriodontidae
- Subfamily Kentriodontinae
- Genus Belonodelphis
- Genus Delphinodon
- Genus Heterodelphis
- Genus Incacetus?
- Genus Kentriodon
- Genus Lamprolithax
- Genus Loxolithax
- Genus Macrokentriodon
- Genus Microphocaena
- Genus Rudicetus
- Genus Tagicetus
- Subfamily Lophocetinae
- Genus Hadrodelphis
- Genus Liolithax
- Genus Lophocetus
- Genus Platyvercus[3]
- Subfamily Pithanodelphininae?
- Genus Atocetus?
- Genus Leptodelphis?
- Genus Pithanodelphis?
- Genus Sarmatodelphis?
- Genus Sophianacetus?
- Subfamily Kampholophinae?
- Genus Kampholophos?
- Subfamily Kentriodontinae
- Family Monodontidae
- Subfamily Delphinapterinae
- Genus †Bohaskaia
- Genus Delphinapterus
- Genus † Denebola
- Subfamily Monodontinae
- Genus Monodon
- Subfamily Delphinapterinae
- Family † Odobenocetopsidae
- Genus Odobenocetops
- Family Phocoenidae
- Genus †Archaeophocaena
- Genus †Australithax
- Genus †Brabocetus
- Genus †Haborophocoena
- Genus †Lomacetus
- Genus †Miophocaena
- Genus Neophocaena
- Genus †Numataphocoena
- Genus Phocoena
- Genus Phocoenoides
- Genus †Piscolithax
- Genus †Pterophocaena
- Genus †Salumiphocaena
- Genus †Semirostrum
- Genus †Septemtriocetus
- Familia incertae sedis
- Genus †Graamocetus
- Genus †Miodelphis
- Genus †Nannolithax
- Genus †Oedolithax
- Genus †Palaeophocaena
- Genus †Platylithax
- Genus †Protodelphinus
References edit
- ^ The Paleobiology Database
- ^ McGowen, Michael R; Tsagkogeorga, Georgia; Álvarez-Carretero, Sandra; dos Reis, Mario; Struebig, Monika; Deaville, Robert; Jepson, Paul D; Jarman, Simon; Polanowski, Andrea; Morin, Phillip A; Rossiter, Stephen J (2019-10-21). "Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture". Systematic Biology. 69 (3): 479–501. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz068. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 7164366. PMID 31633766.
- ^ Guo, Z.; Kohno, N. (February 2023). "An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography". PLOS ONE. 18 (2): e0280218. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1880218G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280218. PMC 9931143. PMID 36791148.
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