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Pontoporiidae Gray, 1870 
AphiaID: 342635

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Odontoceti
Source  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

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[hide all]		 Genus Pontoporia Gray, 1846
  » Subgenus Pontoporia (Pontoporia)
» Subgenus Pontoporia (Stenodelphis)
  » Species Pontoporia (Stenodelphis) blainvillei Fraser, in Norman & Fraser, 1938 represented as Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844) (alternate representation)
» Species Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844)
» Species Pontoporia blainvillii Gray, 1846 accepted as Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844)
» Species Pontoporia tenuirostris Malm, 1871 accepted as Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844)

Genus Stenodelphis d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1847 accepted as Pontoporia Gray, 1846
  » Species Stenodelphis blainvillei d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1847 accepted as Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844)
Environment marine, brackish
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342635
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-04-09 06:25:32Z  created  Decock, Wim
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
2009-03-09 12:44:44Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Pontoporiidae. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342635 on 2013-05-21
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