Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801)
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Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801) |
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Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801) View in CoL . Asiat. Res. Trans. Soc. (Calcutta ed.), 7:170, pl. 5.
TYPE LOCALITY: India, West Bengal, "in the Ganges... rivers, and creeks, which intersect in the delta of that river to the South, S. E. and east of Calcutta." (= Hooghly River, Ganges River delta) .
DISTRIBUTION: India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh: Ganges, Bramaputra, Meghna, Karnaphuli, and Hooghly river systems.
STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable.
COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Brownell (1989). Formerly included minor (= indi ), see van Bree (1976), Pilleri and Gihr (1971), and Pilleri (1978).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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