Cetacea taxon details

Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais & Deville in Gervais, 1853)

254982  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254982)

accepted
Species
Delphinus pallidus Gervais, 1855 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sotalia tucuxi Flower, 1884 · unaccepted (synonym)
Steno (Sotalia) brasiliensis Trouessart, 1898 · alternative representation
Steno (Sotalia) tucuxi Trouessart, 1898 · alternative representation
Steno brasiliensis Trouessart, 1898 · unaccepted (synonym)
Steno fluviatilis Gray, 1866 · unaccepted (synonym)
Steno pallidus Gray, 1866 · unaccepted (synonym)
Steno tucaxi Van Beneden & Gervais, 1880 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Steno tucuxi Gray, 1856 · unaccepted (synonym)
Steno tucuxi Trouessart, 1898 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Perrin, W.F. (2021). World Cetacea Database. Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais & Deville in Gervais, 1853). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254982 on 2024-03-19
Date
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by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z
created
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z
checked
2009-04-09 15:27:12Z
changed
2011-09-29 20:40:12Z
changed

basis of record Mead, J. G.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. <em>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.</em> 723--743., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]   

additional source Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. <em>Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication.</em> 4., available online at http://www.marinemammalscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/MarineMammalsOfTheWorld.pdf [details]   

additional source Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of Living Whales. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (246): 1-259., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.246 [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.; Würsig, B.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Second edition. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-373553-9. xxix, 1316 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Silva, V. M. F. da and R. C. Best. (1996). Sotalia fluviatilis. Mammalian Species 527:1--7. [details]   

additional source Gervais, P. (1853). Bull. Soc. Agric. 20:148. [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Habitat In freshwater in Amazon and Orinoco drainage basins. [details]

Holotype Skin and anterior portion of skull in Paris Museum according to Hershkovitz (1966), but no mention of species in review of Paris holotypes by Robineau (1989). Lost? [details]

IUCN Red List Category Data Deficient (DD) [details]
LanguageName 
Dutch Amazonedolfijn  [details]
English tucuxigray river dolphingray dolphinBrazilian dolphin  [details]
French sotalia  [details]
Portuguese bufo pretoboto pretoboto cinza  [details]
Spanish sopiondelfin del Amazonasdelfin de riocuchuskabufonbufo negrobufetebufeo negrobufeo loquillobufeo grisbufeo blanco  [details]
Tupi languages tucuxi  [details]