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Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801) 
AphiaID: 254967

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Platanistidae (Family) > Platanista (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Platanista Wagler, 1830
Synonymised
taxa
  Delphinorhynchus gangeticus Lesson, 1827 (synonym)
Delphinus gangetica Roxburgh, 1801 (basionym)
Delphinus rostrats F. Cuvier, 1836 (misspelling)
Delphinus rostratus Shaw, 1801 (synonym)
Delphinus schawensis F. Cuvier, 1836 (misspelling)
Delphinus shawensis Blainville, 1817 (synonym)
Platanista indi Blyth, 1859 (synonym)
Soosoo gangeticus Hamilton, 1837 (synonym)
Susa planista Wagler, 1830 (synonym)
Susu platanista Lesson, 1828 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Lebeck, H. J. (1801). Delphinus delphis beschrieben von Herrn Heinrich Julius Lebeck. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Neue Schriften 2:280-282, pl. [details]

basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details]

additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details]

additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details]

additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details]

additional source: Roxburgh, W. (1801). An account of a new species of Delphinus, and inhabitant of the Ganges. Asiatick Researches - Transactions of the Asiatick Society (Calcutta ed.)7:170, pl.5. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Assamese hiho  [details]
Assamese shihu  [details]
Bengali foomaach  [details]
Bengali hungmaach  [details]
Bengali shushuk  [details]
Bengali sishu maach  [details]
Czech defínovec ganžský  [details]
Dutch Gangesdolfijn  [details]
English bhulan  [details]
English blind river dolphin  [details]
English Ganges River dolphin  [details]
English Gangetic dolphin  [details]
English Indus River dolphin  [details]
English South Asian river dolphin  [details]
English susu  [details]
French plataniste de l'Indus, or plataniste du Ganges  [details]
French sousou  [details]
German Ganges-Delphin  [details]
Hindi soonse  [details]
Hindi sunsar  [details]
Italian delfino cieco  [details]
Nepali (individual language) sus matsya  [details]
Nepali (individual language) swongsu  [details]
Portuguese golfinho do Ganges, do Indo  [details]
Sindhi bhulan  [details]
Spanish platanista del Ganges, or platanista del Indus  [details]
Urdu dolphin muchli  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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 Subspecies Platanista gangetica gangetica Roxburgh, 1801
Subspecies Platanista gangetica minor Owen, 1853
Environment fresh
Distribution Ganges Delta [details]
Indus River [details]
Feedingtype  carnivore [details]
Links MarineBio.org
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (221 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (193 nucleotides; 150 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Ganges,Brahmaputra, Karnaphuli and Indus river systems [details]

Holotype: Adult male found stranded November, 1797, and figured by Roxburgh. Rostrum and lower jaw collected also collected by Roxburgh in same locality and according to Owen (1853) was in the collection of the College of Surgeons (No. 2182)is potential neotype. [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Endangered (EN) [details]

Type locality: Hooghly River, near Calcutta, West Bengal, India. [details]
Images 
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 30)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 30)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
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qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:28:58

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 31)
Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 31)
added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:29:06

Platanista gangetica
Platanista gangetica
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qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254967
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  checked  Perrin, William
2009-03-11 12:36:54Z  changed  Perrin, William
2009-04-09 15:27:12Z  changed  Perrin, William
2010-01-04 16:38:16Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Platanista gangetica. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254967 on 2013-06-19
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