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- genus name Platanista in 1830, a Latin word derived from the Gr**** "platanistēs", which may be related to the Gr**** words platē ("oar") or platē ("flat...
- named by contracting "Dalana" and "-istes" to allude to the Gr**** name platanistes used for (unrelated) South Asian river dolphin. Both the genus and species...