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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CETACEA
--> SUBORDER ODONTOCETI
--> FAMILY Platanistidae
--> GENUS Platanista
SPECIES Platanista gangetica
| Author: | Roxburgh, 1801. | | Citation: | Asiat. Res. Trans. Soc. (Calcutta ed.), 7: 170, pl. 5. | | Common Name: | Ganges River Dolphin | | Type Locality: | India, West Bengal, "in the Ganges. . . rivers, and creeks, which intersect in the delta of that river to the South, S. E. and east of Calcutta." (= Hooghly River, Ganges River delta). | | Distribution: | India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: Ganges, Bramaputra, Meghna, Karnaphuli, and Hooghly river systems. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; IUCN – Endangered as P. g. gangetica. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Reeves and Brownell (1989). Formerly included minor (= indi), see Van Bree (1976), Pilleri and Gihr (1971), and Pilleri (1978). |
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