Family PONTOPORIIDAE

(FRANCISCANA)

* Small dolphin with slender body, bulky head, small eyes, long and slender rostrum in adults, and broad, paddle-shaped, and visibly fingered flippers; numerous sharp, conical teeth.

* 110-160 cm.

e Western South Atlantic.

® Shoreward of the inner continental shelf, mostly tropical to temperate watersless than 40 m deep.

* 1 genus, 1 species, 1 taxon.

* 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.