Delphinidae Gray, 1821

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 351

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154891
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scientific name	Delphinidae Gray, 1821
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Family Delphinidae Gray, 1821 View in CoL . London Med. Repos., 15(1):310.

COMMENTS: Includes Globicephalidae , Grampidelphidae , Stenidae , Orcinae, Lissodelphinae, Cephalorhynchinae and Delphininae (Fraser and Purves, 1960); see Kasuya (1973), Mead (1975), Barnes (1978). Also includes Orcaella (see Heyning, 1989a and Lint et al., 1990), sometimes put in the family Monodontidae .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Delphinidae

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