Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1870. Notes on the arrangement of the genera of delphinoid whales. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1870:772-773
Parent taxon: Pontoporiidae according to M. L. Gibson and J. H. Geisler 2009
See also Barnes 1984, Barnes 1985, Barnes et al. 1985, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Foekens 2008, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gill 1873, Kasuya 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Scheffer and Rice 1963
Sister taxa: Auroracetus, Brachydelphininae, Brachydelphis, Lipotinae, Piscorhynchus, Pliopontos, Pontistes, Pontoporia, Protophocaena, Samaydelphis, Scaldiporia, Stenasodelphis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Las Tunas ( of Mexico)