Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais and Deville, 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 : 355

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7154965

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scientific name

Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais and Deville, 1853)
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Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais and Deville, 1853) View in CoL . In Gervais, Bull. Soc. Agric. Hérault, p. 148.

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Loreto, Rio Maranon above Pebas .

DISTRIBUTION: Western Atlantic: coastal waters from Panama to Santos, Sâo Paulo, Brazil: Amazon and Orinoco river systems. See Vidal (1990) and Borobia et al. (1991).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I.

SYNONYMS: guianensis , pallida , tucuxi .

COMMENTS: Due to the difficulty in finding the original work, the full citation is included here: Gervais, F. L. P. [and Deville]. 1853. Sur les mammifères marins qui fréquentent les côtes de la France et plus particulièrement sur une novelle espèce de dauphins propre a la Méditerranés. Bulletin Société Centrale d'Agriculture et des Comices Agricoles du Département de l'Hérault, Montpellier, 40me année, pp. 140-155, 1 pl.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Sotalia

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