Delphinoidea is the largest group of toothed whales, including 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.

Delphinoidea
Temporal range: 28–0 Ma Oligocene to Recent[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Clade: Delphinida
Superfamily: Delphinoidea
Flower, 1865
Families

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Taxonomy

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“The Delphinoidea has a diverse taxonomy, with over 35 mammalia taxas. This includes the species of genus Odobenocetops and Odobenus rosmarus[2]. While also having two types of genus, they also have individual genomes with about 9 species across the three main families of the Delphinoidea. The three main families of the whale are the Delphinidae, Monodontidae and  Phocoenidae.[3]


Based on McGowen et al., 2019[4]

Superfamily Delphinoidea

Family †Albireonidae
Genus Albireo
Family Delphinidae
Subfamily Delphininae
Genus Delphinus
Genus Lagenodelphis
Genus Sotalia
Genus Sousa
Genus Stenella
Genus Tursiops
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[5]
Subfamily Pithanodelphininae?
Genus Atocetus?
Genus Leptodelphis?
Genus Pithanodelphis?
Genus Sarmatodelphis?
Genus Sophianacetus?
Subfamily Kampholophinae?
Genus Kampholophos?
Family Monodontidae
Subfamily Delphinapterinae
Genus †Bohaskaia
Genus Delphinapterus
Genus † Denebola
Subfamily Monodontinae
Genus Monodon
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

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  1. ^ The Paleobiology Database
  2. ^ Muizon, Christian de; Domning, Daryl P. (2002). "The anatomy of Odobenocetops (Delphinoidea, Mammalia), the walrus-like dolphin from the Pliocene of Peru and its palaeobiological implications". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134 (4): 423–452. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00015.x. ISSN 1096-3642.
  3. ^ Westbury, Michael V.; Cabrera, Andrea A.; Rey-Iglesia, Alba; De Cahsan, Binia; Duchêne, David A.; Hartmann, Stefanie; Lorenzen, Eline D. (September 2023). "A genomic assessment of the marine-speciation paradox within the toothed whale superfamily Delphinoidea". Molecular Ecology. 32 (17): 4829–4843. Bibcode:2023MolEc..32.4829W. doi:10.1111/mec.17069. ISSN 0962-1083. PMID 37448145.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.