Iniidae

Iniidae
An Amazon River Dolphin at Duisburg Zoo.
Size comparison against an average human
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Eutheria
Order:	Cetacea
Suborder:	Odontoceti
Superfamily:	Inioidea
Family:	Iniidae Gray, 1846
Genera
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Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living and three extinct genera.

Taxonomy

The family was described by John Edward Gray in 1846.

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.

• Superfamily Inioidea
  • Family Iniidae
    • Genus †Goniodelphis
      • G. hudsoni
    • Genus Inia
      • Inia geoffrensis - Amazon River Dolphin
        • I. g. geoffrensis - Amazonian River Dolphin
        • I. g. boliviensis - Bolivian River Dolphin
        • I. g. humboldtiana - Humboldt River Dolphin
    • Genus †Ischyrorhynchus (syn. Anisodelphis)
      • I. vanbenedeni (syn. Anisodelphis brevirostratus)
    • Genus †Saurocetes (syn. Saurodelphis, Pontoplanodes)
      • S. argentinus (syn. Pontoplanodes obliquus)
      • S. gigas