怀佩什海豚科(学名:Waipatiidae)为已灭绝的齿鲸小目海豚,生存于渐新世时期的太平洋,也可能包括欧洲及高加索地区。
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怀佩什海豚科最初于1994年与怀佩什海豚属由福代斯一同发表命名,且当时他认为小鲸属、库页鲸属、索拉鲸属可能也属于怀佩什海豚科[1]。此外,原先被认为属于原鲨齿鲸属的马氏原鲨齿鲸("Prosqualodon" marplesi),于2010年的研究中被认为实际上属于怀佩什海豚科,并成立新属且更名为马氏奥塔克豚[2][3][4]。
本科包括以下属:
- †阿瓦莫豚属 Awamokoa Tanaka & Fordyce, 2017
- †Awamokoa tokarahi Tanaka & Fordyce, 2017
- †埃迪斯鲸属 Ediscetus Albright, Sanders & Geisler, 2018
- †Ediscetus osbornei Albright et al., 2018
- †尖齿豚属 Nihohae
- †长齿豚属 Nihoroa
- †奥塔克豚属 Otekaikea Tanaka & Fordyce, 2014
- †Otekaikea huata Tanaka & Fordyce, 2015
- † Papahu Aguirre Fernandez & Fordyce, 2014
- † Sulakocetus Mchedlidze, 1976
- †山豚属 Urkudelphis Tanaka, Abella, Aguirre Fernandez, Gregori & Fordyce, 2017
- †Urkudelphis chawpipacha Tanaka, Abella, Aguirre Fernandez, Gregori & Fordyce, 2017
- †怀佩什海豚属 Waipatia Fordyce, 1994
Fordyce, R. Ewan. A. Berta; T. Deméré , 编. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species (Waipatiidae, new family), an archaic Late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the San Diego Museum of Natural History. 1994,. 29, Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.: 147–176.
Tanaka, Y.; Fordyce, R. Ewan. Historically significant late Oligocene dolphin Microcetus hectori Benham 1935: a new species of Waipatia (Platanistoidea). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 2015, 45 (3): 135–150. S2CID 129704207. doi:10.1080/03036758.2015.1016046.