Platanistidae, Gray, 1846
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7211916 |
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Family Platanistidae View in CoL
REVIEWED BY: R. L. Brownell, Jr. (RLB); J. G. Mead (JGM); D. W. Rice (DWR).
COMMENT: Includes Lipotes , Iniidae , and Pontoporiidae (Stenodelphinidae) ; see Rice, 1977; but also see Pilleri and Gihr, 1977, Invest. Cetacea , 8: 11 -76, and Pilleri and Gihr, 1980, Invest. Cetacea , 11:33-36. Zhou et al., 1979, Acta Zool. Sin., 25(2):95-100, placed Lipotes in a separate family, Lipotidae . RLB, DWR and JGM include the above as subfamilies of Platanistidae .
ISIS NUMBER: 5301411001000000000.
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