Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) 
AphiaID: 148732

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Delphinidae > Orcaella

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Orcaella Gray, 1866
Synonymised taxa		Orca (Orcaella) brevirostris Owen in Gray, 1866 (basionym) Orcaella brevirostris brevirostris Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 (synonym) Orcaella brevirostris fluminalis Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 (synonym) Orcaella fluminalis Gray, 1871 (synonym) Orcella brevirostris Anderson, 1871 (synonym) Orcella fluminalis Anderson, 1871 (synonym) Phocaena (Orca) brevirostris Owen, 1866 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Gray J.E. (1866). Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. Trustees of the British Museum, London. page(s): 285 [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: 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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Dutch Irrawaddydolfijn  [details] English dolphin of the Irawadi  [details] English Irawadi dolphin  [details] English Irrawaddy dolphin  [details] English larger Indian porpoise  [details] English snubfin dolphin  [details] French orcelle  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba air tawar Irawadi  [details] Indonesian lumba-lumba Mahakam  [details] Indonesian pesut  [details] Spanish delfín del Irrawaddy  [details] Thai plaloma huabadkhriblang  [details] Thai plaloma irawadi  [details] Turkish Irravady yunusu  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Orcaella brevirostris brevirostris Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 accepted as Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) Subspecies Orcaella brevirostris fluminalis Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 accepted as Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh
Distribution		Central Indo-Pacific [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (54 nucleotides; 53 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: in coastal, brackish and fresh waters, tropical and subtropical [details] Holotype: Skull in British Museum (Natural History), London; no. 1454a, collected by Sir Walter Elliot. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Vulnerable (VU) [details] Type locality: Harbor of Vizagapatam, Madras, Bay of Bengal, India. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 49) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:18:50 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 64) added on 2008-06-04 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:18:58 Orcaella brevirostris added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:19:06 Orcaella brevirostris added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-18 00:19:15 Irrawaddy dolphin in the Philippines added on 2009-03-11 - author: M. Matillano qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-03-11 17:10:10
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148732
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-03-29 08:12:19Z   created   Claus, Simon 2008-08-20 11:25:36Z   changed   Perrin, William 2009-03-11 12:36:54Z   changed   Perrin, William
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866). In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148732 on 2013-05-18