Platanista minor Owen, 1853

James G. Mead & Robert L. Brownell, Jr., 1993, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 349-364 : 360

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7352970
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7155056
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scientific name	Platanista minor Owen, 1853
status

Treatment

Platanista minor Owen, 1853 View in CoL . Descrip. Cat. Osteol. R. Mus. Coll. Surgeons, 2:448.

TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, "from the Indus" River .

DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan, Indus River system.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

SYNONYMS: indi .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Brownell (1989). See van Bree (1976). Formerly included in gangetica ; see Pilleri and Gihr (1971) and Pilleri and Gihr (1976a, b).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Platanistidae
Genus	Platanista

Specimens

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