Platanista Wagler, 1830

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.7155052
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scientific name	Platanista Wagler, 1830
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Platanista Wagler, 1830 View in CoL . Natürliches Syst. Amphibien, p. 35.

TYPE SPECIES: Delphinus gangetica Roxburgh, 1801 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Susu .

COMMENTS: Authorship reviewed by Pilleri (1978). The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1989) conserved Platanista Wagler, 1830 and gangeticus Roxburgh, 1801 and suppressed Susu Lesson, 1828 .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Platanistidae

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