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The Indus river dolphin was described in 1853 by Richard Owen under the name Platanista gangetica, var. minor, based on a dolphin skull, which was smaller than skulls of the Ganges river dolphin. [3] The Indus and Ganges river dolphins were initially classified as a single species, Platanista gangetica. In the 1970s, they were considered to be ...
Articles relating to the Platanistidae, a family of river dolphins containing the extant Ganges river dolphin and Indus river dolphin (both in the genus Platanista) but also extinct relatives from freshwater and marine deposits in the Neogene.
Platanistidae is a family of river dolphins containing the extant Ganges river dolphin and Indus river dolphin (both in the genus Platanista) but also extinct relatives from freshwater [2] and marine deposits in the Neogene.
The Indus river dolphin (Platanista indicus minor) is found only in the Indus River. It is a subspecies of the South Asian river dolphin. The Indus river dolphin formerly also occurred in the tributaries of the Indus river. According to the World Wildlife Fund it is one of the most threatened cetaceans with only about 1,816 still existing. [36]
South Asian river dolphins are toothed whales in the genus Platanista, which inhabit the waterways of the Indian subcontinent.They were historically considered to be one species (P. gangetica) with the Ganges river dolphin and the Indus river dolphin being subspecies (P. g. gangetica and P. g. minor respectively).
The common dolphin was seen multiple times from late morning on Thursday, and was described as appearing to be ‘struggling with the tide’. Appeal for people to stay away from dolphin spotted ...
Indus river dolphin skull. River dolphins have a torpedo shaped body with a flexible neck, limbs modified into flippers, non-existent external ear flaps, a tail fin, and a small bulbous head. River dolphin skulls have small eye orbits, a long snout and eyes placed on the sides of the head.
A bus carrying 27 people, including a wedding party, plunged off Telchi bridge into the Indus river in Pakistan’s Diamer district, killing 14. The crash, attributed to speeding and driver loss ...