Platanista minor Owen, 1853 . Descrip. Cat. Osteol. R. Mus. Coll. Surgeons, p. 448.

TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Indus River .

DISTRIBUTION: Indus River system of Pakistan.

COMMENT: indi Blyth, 1859, is a junior synonym; see Van Bree, 1976, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amst., 5(17): 139—140. Formerly included in gangetica; see Pilleri and Gihr, 1971, Invest. Cetacea, 3: 13-21, and Pilleri and Gihr, 1976, 6: 105-118.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Platanista spp.