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Taxon: Genus Platanista Wagler, 1830 - South Asian river dolphin (mammal)
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Authorship

Original name Wagler, 1830:35.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofPlatanistidae (Family) Gray, 1846
Type, by original designationPlatanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801)

Variants

Different spellingPlantanista (Genus) Wagler, 1830

Synonyms

Synonymous nameSoosoo (Genus) Hamilton, 1836 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous nameSousou (Genus) F. Cuvier, 1836 Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Synonymous nameSusu (Genus) Lesson, 1828 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 117.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full nameSouth Asian river dolphin Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 125.
Ganges and Indus dolphins, susus
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