Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais and d'Orbigny, 1844)

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 : 361

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scientific name

Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais and d'Orbigny, 1844)
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Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais and d'Orbigny, 1844) . Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1844:39.

TYPE LOCALITY: Uruguay, "qui a été pris à Montevideo " = mouth of the Rio de La Plata near Montevideo .

DISTRIBUTION: Brazil to Argentina: coastal waters from Doce River, Regencia, Espirito Santo to Peninsula Valdez.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: tenuirostris .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Brownell (1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Platanistidae

Genus

Pontoporia

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