Orcaella brevirostris (Gray, 1866)

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 : 354

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Orcaella brevirostris (Gray, 1866)
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Orcaella brevirostris (Gray, 1866) View in CoL . Cat. Seals Whales Brit. Mus., p. 285, fig. 57.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Inhab. East coast of India, the harbour of Vizagapatam" (= Vishakhapatnam Harbor, in Bay of Bengal) .

DISTRIBUTION: SE Asia, N Australia and Papua New Guinea: tropical coastal waters and large rivers.

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

SYNONYMS: fluminalis .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Marsh et al. (1989).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Delphinidae

Genus

Orcaella

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