Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844) 
AphiaID: 254964

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Pontoporiidae > Pontoporia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Pontoporia Gray, 1846
Synonymised taxa		Delphinus blainvillei Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844 (basionym) Pontoporia (Stenodelphis) blainvillei Fraser, in Norman & Fraser, 1938 Pontoporia blainvillii Gray, 1846 (synonym) Pontoporia tenuirostris Malm, 1871 (synonym) Stenodelphis blainvillei d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1847 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Gervais, P. and A. d'Orbigny. (1844). Mammalogie. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique, Paris, April 27, 1844:38--40. [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: 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 La Plata dolfijn  [details] English franciscana  [details] English La Plata dolphin  [details] English La Plata River dolphin  [details] French dauphin de la Plata  [details] German La Plata-Delphin  [details] Portuguese boto amarelo  [details] Portuguese cachimbo  [details] Portuguese franciscana  [details] Portuguese toninha  [details] Spanish delfin del Plata  [details] Spanish delfinillo  [details] Spanish franciscana  [details] Spanish tonina  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish
Distribution		Atlantic Coast of South America [details]
Links		MarineBio.org To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (133 nucleotides; 81 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS
Notes		Habitat: coastal and estuarine [details] Holotype: Dolphin of 1.3m captured near Montevideo, Uruguay by M. de Fréminville. Skull reported by Hershkovitz (1966)to be in Paris Museum but not found in review of Paris collection by Robineau (1989). Holotype may no longer exist. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Vulnerable (VU) [details] IUCN Red List Category: subpopulation Rio Grande do Sul/Uruguay franciscana : Vulnerable (VU) [details] Type locality: Mouth of Rio de La Plata, near Montevideo, Uruguay. [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 2009-04-18 00:35:38 Pontoporia blainvillei added on 2009-02-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-06 21:53:51 Pontoporia blainvillei added on 2012-02-06 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2013-05-06 21:53:58
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254964
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
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		Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844). 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=254964 on 2013-05-22