Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Synonyms: Steno (Tucuxa) Gray 1866, Tucuxa Gray 1866
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1866. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum 1-402
Parent taxon: Delphinidae according to M. Murakami et al. 2014
See also Buchholtz and Schur 2004, da Silva and Best 1996, de Muizon 1988, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1870, Hershkovitz 1966, Kasuya 1973, LeDuc et al. 1999, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Palmer 1904, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912 and Weber 1928
Sister taxa: Arimidelphis, Australodelphis, Catodontina, Delphininae, Delphinus malayanus, Eodelphinus, Globicephalinae, Hemisyntrachelus, Lagenorhynchina, Lagenorhynchus, Lissodelphininae, Monoceratina, Norisdelphis, Orcaellinae, Orcina, Orcininae, Orcinus, Pliodelphis, Steninae, Steno, Steno cudmorei, Stenonina, Stenoninae, Trispondylus, Tursiops miocaenus
Subtaxa: Sotalia fluviatilis Sotalia guianensis Sotalia maculiventer
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (3 collections), Peru (1), Suriname (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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