Delphinus gangetica Roxburgh, 1801
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Roxburgh, W. (1801). An account of a new species of <i>Delphinus</i>, and inhabitant of the Ganges. Asiatick Researches - Transactions of the Asiatick Society (Calcutta ed.)7:170, pl.5.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Cetacea
- family
- Platanistidae
- genus
- Platanista
- species
- Platanista gangetica
Name
- Homonyms
- Delphinus gangetica Roxburgh, 1801
Bibliographic References
- Hershkovitz, Philip, 1966: Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin, no. 246. viii + 259.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1565 Platanista Wagler, 1830 (Mammalia, Cetacea): conserved.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 46(3), 217-218 (1989)
- Kinze, C. C., 2000: Rehabilitation of Platanista gangetica (Lebeck, 1801) as the valid scientific name of the Ganges dolphin. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden, vol. 74, no. 11. 193-203.
- Roxburgh, W. (1801). An account of a new species of <i>Delphinus</i>, and inhabitant of the Ganges. Asiatick Researches - Transactions of the Asiatick Society (Calcutta ed.)7:170, pl.5.