| Adicetus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Cetotheriidae |
| Genus: | † Adicetus Figueiredo et al., 2024 |
| Type species | |
| †Cetotherium vandelli Van Beneden & Gervais, 1871 | |
| Other species | |
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Adicetus is an extinct genus of baleen whale from the Miocene of Almada, Portugal. The type species, A. vandelli, was originally named by Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden and Paul Gervais in 1871 and assigned to the genus Cetotherium . [1] The second species belonging to the genus, A. latus, was named by Kellogg in 1941 as Aulocetus latus. [2] Following a redescription of the material in 2024, the species were assigned to the newly coined genus Adicetus by Rodrigo Figueiredo and colleagues. [3] A. vandelli and A. latus are both known from a single skull, both of which were found during a gold expedition at Adiça beach, and first described by Alexandre Vandelli in 1831, although he did not establish any new species for the material. [4]
