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Sotalia fluviatilis

Description

Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais and Deville, 1853). In Gervais, Bull. Soc. Agric. Hérault, p. 148.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Loreto, Rio Maranon above Pebas.

DISTRIBUTION: Western Atlantic: coastal waters from Panama to Santos, Sâo Paulo, Brazil: Amazon and Orinoco river systems. See Vidal (1990) and Borobia et al. (1991).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: guianensis, pallida, tucuxi.

COMMENTS: Due to the difficulty in finding the original work, the full citation is included here: Gervais, F. L. P. [and Deville]. 1853. Sur les mammifères marins qui fréquentent les côtes de la France et plus particulièrement sur une novelle espèce de dauphins propre a la Méditerranés. Bulletin Société Centrale d'Agriculture et des Comices Agricoles du Département de l'Hérault, Montpellier, 40me année, pp. 140-155, 1 pl.

Notes

Published as part of James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, pp. 349-364 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352970

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gervais and Deville
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Cetacea
Family
Delphinidae
Genus
Sotalia
Species
fluviatilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sotalia fluviatilis (and, 1853) sec. Mead & Brownell, 1993