Inia geoffrensis (de Blainville, 1817) 
AphiaID: 254960

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Iniidae > Inia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Inia d'Orbigny, 1834
Synonymised taxa		Delphinorhynchus geoffroyi Lesson, 1827 (synonym) Delphinus amazonicus Spix & Martius, 1831 (synonym) Delphinus frontatus G. Cuvier, 1823 (synonym) Delphinus geoffrensis de Blainville, 1817 (synonym) Delphinus geoffroyi Spix & Martius, 1831 (synonym) Delphinus geoffroyi Desmarest, 1822 (synonym) Delphinus inia Rapp, 1837 (synonym) Delphinus rostratus G. Cuvier, 1812 (synonym for part of Inia geoffrensis) Inia amazonicus Pelzeln, 1883 (synonym) Inia geoffroyensis Austin, 1897 (synonym) Inia geoffroyi Bates, 1863 (synonym) Inia geoffroyii Gray, 1846 (synonym) Inia humboldtiana Pilleri & Gihr, 1978 (synonym) Sotalia pallida Sanborn, 1949 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Blainville, H. de (1817). In [Desmarest, A. G.] Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle 9. [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: Robineau, D. (1989). Les types de cétacés actuels du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle I. Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Kogiidae, Ziphiidae, Iniidae, Pontoporiidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4th ser., 11, section A, no. 1:271-289. [details] additional source: Best, R. C. and V. M. F. da Silva. (1993). Inia geoffrensis. Mammalian Species 426:1--8. [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Aguaruna apupu  [details] Czech defínovec amazonský  [details] Dutch orinocodolfijn  [details] English Amazon river dolphin  [details] English boto  [details] English Geoffroy's river dolphin  [details] French dauphin à museau grêle  [details] French inia  [details] German Amazonas-Delphin  [details] Guarayu inia  [details] Portuguese boto  [details] Portuguese boto pretinho  [details] Portuguese boto vermelho  [details] Portuguese boto-rosa  [details] Portuguese bouto  [details] Portuguese boutu  [details] Spanish boto  [details] Spanish bufeo  [details] Spanish bufete  [details] Spanish delfin amazonico  [details] Spanish delfín colorado  [details] Spanish delfin de agua dulce  [details] Spanish delfin de rio  [details] Spanish delfin llanero  [details] Spanish delfin rosado  [details] Spanish fansa  [details] Spanish tonina  [details] Spanish tonina de agua dulce  [details] Spanish tonina de rio  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Inia geoffrensis boliviensis d'Orbigny, 1834 Subspecies Inia geoffrensis geoffrensis (de Blainville, 1817) Subspecies Inia geoffrensis humboldtiana Pilleri & Gihr, 1977
Environment		marine, fresh
Links		MarineBio.org To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (100 nucleotides; 80 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: South America, in rivers and lakes in Amazon and Orinoco drainage basins [details] Holotype: Mounted skin and skull, in Laboratoire d'Anatomie compareée (skull) and Zoothèque (skin) of Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), no.CGZ 4 (skin) and JAC 1870-274, CAC A 11477 (skull).  [details] IUCN Red List Category: Data Deficient (DD) [details] Type locality: Either in the Rio Negro or in the lower reaches of the Amazon and its tributaries in Brazil. [details]
Images		Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 29) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:45:10 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 32) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:45:18 Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 33) added on 2008-06-03 - author: Delahaye in Van Beneden & Gervais (1880) scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:45:27 Inia geoffrensis added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:45:38 Inia geoffrensis added on 2009-02-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-04-05 18:37:26 Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) added on 2009-05-01 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-01 23:40:59 Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) added on 2009-05-01 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-01 23:42:01 Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) added on 2009-05-02 - author: Thomas Jefferson () qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-02 00:49:01
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254960
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
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Inia geoffrensis (de Blainville, 1817). 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=254960 on 2013-05-21