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Platanista gangetica minor Owen, 1853 
AphiaID: 254969

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) > Platanista gangetica (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Subspecies
Parent Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801)
Synonymised
taxa		  Platanista minor Owen, 1853 (synonym)
 Susu gangetica Hershkovitz, 1966 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Indus River dolphin  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Indus River (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links MarineBio.org
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To ITIS
Note  IUCN Red List Category: Endangered (EN) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254969
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
2009-01-07 16:13:45Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Platanista gangetica minor. 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=254969 on 2013-05-22
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