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--> ORDER CETACEA
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--> FAMILY Iniidae
--> GENUS Inia
SPECIES Inia geoffrensis
| Author: | Blainville, 1817. | | Citation: | Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 9: 151. | | Common Name: | Amazon River Dolphin | | Type Locality: | "sur la côte du Brésil.", probably upper Amazon River. | | Distribution: | Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Columbia: Amazon, Negro, Mamore (Bolivia), and Orinoco River systems. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Best and de Silva (1989). Includes boliviensis, see Casinos and Ocaña (1979); but also see Pilleri and Gihr (1977), who considered it a distinct species. Rice (1998:93) recognized I. g. geoffrensis (Amazon River Dolphin), I. g. humboldtiana (Orinoco River Dolphin) and I. g. boliviensis (Bolivian River Dolphin). |
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