Subfamily Lissodelphininae Fraser and Purves 1960 (dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Alternative spellings: Lissodelphinae, Lissodelphinae

Full reference: F. C. Fraser and P. E. Purves. 1960. Hearing in Cetaceans. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 7(1):1-140

Parent taxon: Delphinidae according to N. L. Vollmer et al. 2019

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes et al. 1985, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Foekens 2008, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, LeDuc et al. 1999, Marx et al. 2016, Mead and Brownell 2005, Perrin et al. 2013 and Vidal 1991

Sister taxa: Arimidelphis, Australodelphis, Catodontina, Delphininae, Delphinus malayanus, Eodelphinus, Globicephalinae, Hemisyntrachelus, Lagenorhynchina, Lagenorhynchus, Monoceratina, Norisdelphis, Orcaellinae, Orcina, Orcininae, Orcinus, Pliodelphis, Sotalia, Steninae, Steno, Steno cudmorei, Stenonina, Stenoninae, Trispondylus, Tursiops miocaenus

Subtaxa: Cephalorhynchus Lissodelphis Sagmatias

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (3), Australia (3), Chile (3), French Southern Territories (1), Japan (4), New Zealand (2), South Africa (5), United States (5: California, Oregon)

• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1)

• Miocene of Moldova (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1)

• Neogene of Germany (1)

Total: 34 collections including 36 occurrences

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