Inia
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Superfamily: | Platanistoidea |
| Family: | Iniidae |
| Genus: | Inia d'Orbigny 1834 |
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Inia is a genus of river dolphin containing one or possibly two species.
[edit] Taxonomy
The genus was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1834 when Delphinus geoffrensis, described by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1817, was recognized to be a unique taxon. The most recent 1998 classification[1] listed a single species, Inia geoffrensis, in the genus Inia, with three recognized subspecies. Most of the scientific community accepts this single species classification, as does the IUCN.[2]
- Genus Inia
- Species Inia geoffrensis Amazon river dolphin
- Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis
- Subspecies I. g. boliviensis
- Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana
- Species Inia geoffrensis Amazon river dolphin
Alternate classification
- Genus Inia
- Species Inia boliviensis Bolivian river dolphin
- Species Inia geoffrensis Amazon river dolphin
- Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis
- Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana
[edit] References
- ^ Rice, D. W. (1998). Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution. Society of Marine Mammalogy Special Publication Number 4. pp. 231.
- ^ Reeves, R.R., Jefferson, T.A., Karczmarski, L., Laidre, K., O’Corry-Crowe, G., Rojas-Bracho, L., Secchi, E.R., Slooten, E., Smith, B.D., Wang, J.Y. & Zhou, K. (2008). Inia geoffrensis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 06 March 2009.
- General references
- Montgomery, Sy (2000). Journey of the pink dolphins : an Amazon quest. Simon & Schuster, 317 pages. 068484558X
- Juliet Clutton-Brock (2000). Mammals, 381 pages.
