Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801) 
AphiaID: 254967

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Platanistidae > Platanista

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 [show all]		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) 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 00:28:58 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 added on 2012-03-14 - author: VLIZ Collection 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 (Lebeck, 1801). 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=254967 on 2013-05-23