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Iniidae Gray 1846
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Family INIIDAE
(AMAZON RIVER DOLPHINS)
• Largest river dolphins, with robust, flexible bodies, long, robust beaks with many teeth; dentition ofconical, peg-like grasping teeth in the front and molar-like crushing teeth behind.
• 200-260 cm.
• Neotropical Region.
• Endemic to the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in northern South America.
• 1 genus, 3 species, 3 taxa.
• Nospecies threatened; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2014, Iniidae, pp. 364-379 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 4 Sea Mammals, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 364, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6599240
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