Family INIIDAE

(AMAZON RIVER DOLPHINS)

• Largest river dolphins, with robust, flexible bodies, long, robust beaks with many teeth; dentition ofconical, peg-like grasping teeth in the front and molar-like crushing teeth behind.

• 200-260 cm.

• Neotropical Region.

• Endemic to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in northern South America.

• 1 genus, 3 species, 3 taxa.

• Nospecies threatened; none Extinct since 1600.