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Platanistidae is a
family of
river dolphins containing the
extant Ganges river dolphin and
Indus river dolphin (both in the
genus Platanista) but also...
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Marine mammals comprise over 130
living and
recently extinct species in
three taxonomic orders. The
Society for
Marine Mammalogy, an
international scientific...
- superfamilies,
Platanistoidea and Inioidea. They
comprise the
families Platanistidae (the
South Asian dolphins), the
possibly extinct Lipotidae (Yangtze...
- Iniidae, Kogiidae, Lipotidae, Monodontidae, Phocoenidae, Physeteridae,
Platanistidae, Pontoporiidae, Ziphiidae, and Hippopotamidae, and
includes the aquatic...
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diverged 550,000
years ago. They are the only
living members of the
family Platanistidae and the
superfamily Platanistoidea.
Fossils of
ancient relatives date...
- (Platanista minor) is a
species of
freshwater dolphin in the
family Platanistidae. It is
endemic to the
Indus River basin in ****stan and Beas
River in...
- skin is
usually wrinkled; and it has no
teeth on the
upper jaw. The
Platanistidae were
originally thought to hold only one
species (the
South Asian river...
- 1978 (toothed whale)". PBDB. "Family
Iniidae Gray 1846". PBDB. "Family
Platanistidae Gray 1846". PBDB. Muizon, C. (1984). "Les
vertebres fossiles de la Formation...
- the
Ziphiidae (beaked whales), and
highest in the
Physeteridae and
Platanistidae (South
Asian river dolphins). The
melon of
pilot whales (Globicephala)...
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Dolphins belong to the
families Delphinidae (the
oceanic dolphins),
Platanistidae (the
Indian river dolphins),
Iniidae (the New
World river dolphins)...
