Delphinidae, Gray, 1821

Voss, Robert S. & Fleck, David W., 2017, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 2: Xenarthra, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, And Sirenia, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (417), pp. 1-1 : 1-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/00030090-417.1.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E587EC-FFEE-FFE9-76D5-FF008436FDCA

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Delphinidae
status

 

Cetaceans ( Delphinidae View in CoL and Iniidae )

The Matses recognize both of the species of dolphins present in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluve, the gray dolphin ( Sotalia fluviatilis [ Delphinidae ]) and the pink Amazon river dolphin ( Inia geoffrensis [ Iniidae ]). Their general term for dolphin is chishkan, an unanalyzable term that does not occur in other Panoan languages. There are no archaic synonyms or ceremonial terms for dolphins.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF