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Monotypic taxon:
Subfamily
Monodontinae
Gray, 1821
- narwhal
(mammal)
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Entity:
Monodontidae (Family) - white whales
..†Bohaskaia (Genus)
..Delphinapterinae (Subfamily)
..Monodontinae (Subfamily) - narwhal
....Monodon (Genus) - narwhal
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
(Gray, 1821) Miller, 1923
Original name
:
Gray, 1821:310.
Subsequent rank
:
1923. Miller, 1923
: 34, 40, 51.
Types
Nominotypical taxon of
:
Monodontidae
(Family)
Gray, 1821
Type
:
Monodon
(Genus)
Linnaeus, 1758
Variants
Different rank
:
Monodontidae
(Family)
Gray, 1821
Ref:
A.F. DeBlase, 1982
: 1038.
Homonyms
Junior homonym
:
Monodontinae
(Subfamily)
Gray, 1857, nom. illeg.
Ref:
P. Bouchet et al., 2017
: 158.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Monodontina
(Subgenus)
Conrad, 1853
Ref:
PBDB
: 27 Oct 2013.
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
narwhal
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