This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
Name from
Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Linnaeus, 1758
Other languages
scientific
Physeter
Alternative Name
scientific
Catodon
Linnaeus, 1761
Ref.: P. Hershkovitz. 1966. Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin 246:1-259
scientific
Cetus
Billberg, 1828
Ref.: J. G. Mead and R. L. Brownell. 2005. Order Cetacea. Mammalian Species of the World
scientific
Meganeuron
Gray, 1866
Ref.: J. E. Gray. 1866. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum
scientific
Megistosaurus
Godman, 1827
Ref.: J. D. Godman. 1827. New fossil animal. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1827:566
scientific
Physalus
Lacépède, 1804
Ref.: J. G. Mead and R. L. Brownell. 2005. Order Cetacea. Mammalian Species of the World
A. Collareta, 2017 - Koristocetus pescei gen. et sp. nov., a diminutive sperm whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru - Fossil Record (20), 259-278 (journal article, English)
J. Velez-Juarbe, 2015 - Evolutionary patterns among living and fossil kogiid sperm whales: Evidence from the Neogene of Central America - PLoS One (10), e0123- (journal article, English)
J. G. Mead, 2005 - Order Cetacea - Mammalian Species of the World (), 723-743 (book/book chapter, English)
D. W. Rice, 1998 - Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution - The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication (4), 1-231 (journal article, )
P. Hershkovitz, 1966 - Catalog of Living Whales - United States National Museum Bulletin (246), 1-259 (journal article, English)
O. P. Hay, 1930 - - Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (390), 1-1074 (book, English)
O. Thomas, 1911 - The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (81), 120-158 (journal article, English)
L. Joleaud, 1906 - Description des Terrains Neogenes - Memoires de L'Academie de Vaucluse (6), 329-385 (journal article, English)
T. S. Palmer, 1904 - Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals - North American Fauna (23), 1-984 (serial monograph, English)
S. N. Rhoads, 1903 - The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and Descriptive Account of the Furred Animals of Land and Sea, Both Living and Extinct, Known to Have Existed in These States - (), 1-266 (journal article, English)
J. Leidy, 1869 - The extinct mammalian fauna of Dakota and Nebraska, including an account of some allied forms from other localities, together with a synopsis of the mammalian remains of North America - Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (2), 1-472 (journal article, )
J. E. Gray, 1866 - - Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum (), 1-402 (book, English)
J. Leidy, 1853 - [Observations on extinct Cetacea] - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences (6), 377-378 (journal article, English)
J. E. Gray, 1850 - - Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea (), 1-153 (book, English)
P. Gervais, 1849 - Sur la repartition des mammiferes fossiles entre les differents etages tertiaires qui concourent a former le sol de la France - C. R. Acad. Scie (28), 643-647 (journal article, French)
R. Harlan, 1828 - [On a marine animal discovered in the Alluvion of the Mississippi] - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1828), 1828- (journal article, English)
J. D. Godman, 1827 - [New fossil animal] - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1827), 566- (journal article, English)
B. Lacépède, 1804 - - Histoire Naturelle des Cetacees (), - (book, French)
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - - Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima (1), 1-824 (book, other)