Marine Species Traits - Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801)

Traits taxon details

Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801)

Van Beneden & Gervais (1880, pl. 30)

AphiaID

254967 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254967)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Platanista Wagler, 1830

Direct children (2)

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Subspecies Platanista gangetica gangetica Roxburgh, 1801
Subspecies Platanista gangetica minor Owen, 1853

Environment

fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

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]

Taxonomic citation

Perrin, W.F. (2021). World Cetacea Database. Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2021) Marine Species Traits at: http://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254967 on 2025-09-12

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254967 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

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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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.; Brownell, R. L. Jr. (2005). Cetacea. 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. 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. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication. 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. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (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 Delphinus, 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. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]