La Plata dowphin
| La Plata dowphin | |
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| Skeleton in the collection o Museo di storia naturale e del territorio dell'Università di Pisa | |
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| Size comparison against an average human | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Subcless: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Superfaimily: | Platanistoidea |
| Faimily: | Pontoporiidae Gray, 1870 |
| Genus: | Pontoporia |
| Species: | P. blainvillei |
| Binomial name | |
| Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844 | |
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| La Plata Dolphin range | |
The La Plata dowphin or Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) is foond in coastal Atlantic watters o sootheastren Sooth Americae. Taxonomically, it is a member o the river dowphin group an the anly ane that actually lives in the ocean an seltwatter estuaries, rather than inhabitin exclusively freshwatter seestems.
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ Reeves, R., Dalebout, M., Jefferson, T.A., Karkzmarski, L., Laidre, K., O’Corry-Crowe, G., Rojas-Bracho, L., Secchi, E., Slooten, E., Smith, B.D., Wang, J.Y. , Zerbini, A.N. & Zhou, K. (2012). "Pontoporia blainvillei". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 18 Januar 2013. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.