Classis : Mammalia 
Ordo : Artiodactyla 
Infraordo : Cetacea 
Parvordo : Odontoceti 
Superfamilia : Platanistoidea 

Platanistidae sunt familia odontocetorum quae Platanistas exstantis cum cognatis exstinctis ex sedimentis Neogenicis effossis continet.[1]

Inia geoffrensis, Lipotes vexillifer, et Pontoporia blainvillei olim inter Platanistidas numerabantur,[2] sed studia cladistica et DNA annis 1990 incipientia monstraverunt haec tria taxa artius cognata cum Delphinoideis quam cum Platanista gangetica esse.[3] Allodelphinidae et Squalodelphinidae, exstinctae odontocetorum familiae, cum Platanistidis arte coniunguntur.[4] Fossilia ex hoc clado in depositis in America Septentrionali Australique, Europa, et Asia Media inventa sunt.[5]

Notae recensere

  1. L. G. Barnes (2006), "A phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti)," Beitrage zur Palaontologie 30: 25–42.
  2. G. G. Simpson (1945), "The principles of classification and a classification of mammals," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85: 1–350.
  3. T. Hrbek, V. M. F. da Silva, N. Dutra, W. Gravena, A. R. Martin, et I. P. Farias (2014), " A New Species of River Dolphin from Brazil or: How Little Do We Know Our Biodiversity," PLoS ONE 9(1): e83623. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083623.
  4. A. Boersma, et N. D. Pyenson (2016), "Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea," Peer J. 4: e2321. doi:10.7717/peerj.2321. PMC 4991871. Formula:PMID.
  5. Family Platanistidae Gray 1846. . PBDB .

Nexus externi recensere

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