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Taxon: Suborder Odontoceti Flower, 1867 - toothed whales (mammal)

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Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			W.H. Flower, 1869[1867]
Original name	:			Gray, J.E. 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 231 ("Sect. II. Denticete"). (sub "Suborder I. Cete"). ≡
Subsequent rank	:			Flower, W.H. 1864. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 388 ("Delphinoidea or Odontocete"). ≡
Subsequent spelling	:			Flower, W.H. 1869[1867]. Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 6 (3) (art. 4): 111 ("Odontoceti or Delphinoidea"), 115. ≡
Source for the authorship	:			Mead, J.G. & Brownell Jr., R.L. 2005. In Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 726 ("Flower, 1867"). ≡

Variants

Subsequent rank	:	*Odontoceti* (Parvorder) Flower, 1867		Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 379 (note 1). [new]
Different rank	:	*Odontoceta* (Order) Ameghino, 1889		Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1037.
Current rank	:	*Odontoceti* (Parvorder) Flower, 1867		Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27). [inferred]
Former rank	:	*Odontoceti* (Parvorder) Flower, 1867		Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445. [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name	:	*Denticete* (Suborder) (Gray, 1864)		Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous name	:	*Odontoceta* (Order) Ameghino, 1889		Ref: PBDB: 19 Dec 2017.

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name

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tandwalvissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name

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toothed whales

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