Iniidae
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| An Amazon River Dolphin at Duisburg Zoo. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Superfamily: | Inioidea[1] |
| Family: | Iniidae Gray, 1846 |
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Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living and three extinct genera.
[edit] Taxonomy
The family was described by John Edward Gray in 1846.[1]
Current classifications include a single living genera, Inia, with one species and three subspecies. The family also includes three extinct genera described from fossils found in South America, Florida, Libya, and Italy.[1]
- Superfamily Inioidea
- Family Iniidae
- Genus †Goniodelphis
- G. hudsoni
- Genus Inia
- Inia geoffrensis - Amazon River Dolphin
- I. g. geoffrensis
- I. g. boliviensis
- I. g. humboldtiana
- Inia geoffrensis - Amazon River Dolphin
- Genus †Ischyrorhynchus (syn. Anisodelphis)
- I. vanbenedeni (syn. Anisodelphis brevirostratus)
- Genus †Saurocetes (syn. Saurodelphis, Pontoplanodes)
- S. argentinus (syn. Pontoplanodes obliquus)
- S. gigas
- Genus †Goniodelphis
- Family Iniidae
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