Iniidae, Gray, 1846

Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, Check List 16 (1), pp. 127-136 : 131

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.127
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scientific name	Iniidae
status

Treatment

Family Iniidae View in CoL

Inia geoffrensis (Blainville, 1817) , Amazon River Dolphin

Records. Recorded by hunting interviews (09°06.205′S, 068°56.709′W) and opportunistic sightings.

Identification. The body varies from light gray in juve- niles to pink in adults. The eyes are small and the ros- trum is long and narrow, with the presence of vibrissae. The melon on the head is prominent ( Best and Silva 1993).

References

Best RC, Silva MF (1993) Inia geoffrensis. Mammalian Species 426 (23): 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3504090

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Iniidae
Genus	Inia

Specimens