Iniidae
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| An Amazon river dolphin at Duisburg Zoo. | |
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| Size compared to an average human | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Superfamily: | Inioidea[1] |
| Family: | Iniidae Gray, 1846 |
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Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living and four extinct genera.
Taxonomy[edit]
The family was described by John Edward Gray in 1846.[1]
Current classifications include a single living genera, Inia, with one to three[2] species and several subspecies. The family also includes three extinct genera described from fossils found in South America, Florida, Libya, and Italy.[1]
- Superfamily Inioidea
- Family Iniidae
- Genus †Goniodelphis
- G. hudsoni
- Genus Inia
- Inia araguaiaensis - Araguaian river dolphin
- Inia boliviensis - Bolivian river dolphin
- Inia geoffrensis - Amazon river dolphin
- I. g. geoffrensis - Amazonian river dolphin
- I. g. humboldtiana - Humboldt River dolphin
- Genus †Meherrinia
- Genus †Ischyrorhynchus (syn. Anisodelphis)
- I. vanbenedeni (syn. Anisodelphis brevirostratus)
- Genus †Saurocetes (syn. Saurodelphis, Pontoplanodes)
- S. argentinus (syn. Pontoplanodes obliquus)
- S. gigas
- Genus †Goniodelphis
- Family Iniidae
References[edit]
- ^ a b c The paleobiology Database
- ^ Hrbek, Tomas; Da Silva, Vera Maria Ferreira; Dutra, Nicole; Gravena, Waleska; Martin, Anthony R.; Farias, Izeni Pires (2014-01-22). Turvey, Samuel T., ed. "A New Species of River Dolphin from Brazil or: How Little Do We Know Our Biodiversity". PLOS ONE 9: e83623. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083623.
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