Cetacea taxon details
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]
original description
(of Delphinus gangetica Roxburgh, 1801) Roxburgh, W. (1801). An account of a new species of <i>Delphinus</i>, and inhabitant of the Ganges. Asiatick Researches - Transactions of the Asiatick Society (Calcutta ed.)7:170, pl.5. [details]
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
Roxburgh, W. (1801). An account of a new species of <i>Delphinus</i>, and inhabitant of the Ganges. Asiatick Researches - Transactions of the Asiatick Society (Calcutta ed.)7:170, pl.5. [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]
From editor or global species database
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]
Language | Name | |
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Assamese |
shihuhiho |
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Bengali |
sishu maachshushukhungmaachfoomaach |
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Czech |
defínovec ganžský |
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Dutch |
Gangesdolfijn |
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English |
susuSouth Asian river dolphinIndus River dolphinGangetic dolphinGanges River dolphinblind river dolphinbhulan |
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French |
sousouplataniste de l'Indus, or plataniste du Ganges |
[details] |
German |
Ganges-Delphin |
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Hindi |
sunsarsoonse |
[details] |
Italian |
delfino cieco |
[details] |
Nepali (individual language) |
swongsusus matsya |
[details] |
Portuguese |
golfinho do Ganges, do Indo |
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Sindhi |
bhulan |
[details] |
Spanish |
platanista del Ganges, or platanista del Indus |
[details] |
Urdu |
dolphin muchli |
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