Orcaella brevirostris, (Owen in Gray, 1866)

Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3), pp. 147-197 : 190

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13930921

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BF0B87EA-AE4E-FFD8-9F69-FF1CFB6D074A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Orcaella brevirostris
status

 

346. Orcaella brevirostris (Owen in Gray, 1866) View in CoL

Common name: Irrawaddy Dolphin

Myanmar name:

Distribution: Tropical coastal waters and large rivers in Southeast Asia, Northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. In Myanmar, recorded in the Irrawaddy River and in the nearshore waters of the Myeik Archipelago ( Smith and Tun 2008). Remarks: This species is listed as endangered and completely protected species of Myanmar.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

SubOrder

Ruminantia

ParvOrder

Odontoceti

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Orcaella

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