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Toothed whales

	Sperm whales (Physeteridae)

	Dwarf sperm whales (Kogiidae)

South Asian river dolphins (Platanistidae)

Beaked whales (Ziphiidae)

Inioidea

Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotidae)

	Pontoporiidae

	Iniidae

Delphinoidea

Oceanic dolphins (Delphinidae)

†Kentriodon pernix

	Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin)

	Phocoena phocoena (Harbour porpoise)

Monodontidae

†Haborodelphis japonicus

†Denebola brachycephala

	†Bohaskaia monodontoides

	Monodon monoceros

	†Casatia thermophila

	IRSNB M 1922

Delphinapterus leucas (Beluga whale)

A phylogenetic tree representing the position of white whales in the toothed whale parvorder.^[1] Detail under Monodontidae is based on a 2019 study of the family.^[2]

References

^ John Gatesy; Jonathan H. Geisler; Joseph Chang; Carl Buell; Annalisa Berta; Robert W. Meredith; Mark S. Springer; Michael R. McGowen (2012). "A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whale" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (2): 479–506. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.012. PMID 23103570. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
^ Bianucci, Giovanni; Pesci, Fabio; Collareta, Alberto; Tinelli, Chiara (4 May 2019). "A new Monodontidae (Cetacea, Delphinoidea) from the lower Pliocene of Italy supports a warm-water origin for narwhals and white whales". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (3): e1645148. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E5148B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1645148. hdl:11568/1022436. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 202018525. Retrieved 21 January 2024.

[toothed-whale_tree-1] John Gatesy; Jonathan H. Geisler; Joseph Chang; Carl Buell; Annalisa Berta; Robert W. Meredith; Mark S. Springer; Michael R. McGowen (2012). "A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whale" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (2): 479–506. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.012. PMID 23103570. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

[:14-2] Bianucci, Giovanni; Pesci, Fabio; Collareta, Alberto; Tinelli, Chiara (4 May 2019). "A new Monodontidae (Cetacea, Delphinoidea) from the lower Pliocene of Italy supports a warm-water origin for narwhals and white whales". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (3): e1645148. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E5148B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1645148. hdl:11568/1022436. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 202018525. Retrieved 21 January 2024.

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