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Platanista
Taxonomy
Platanista was named by Wagler (1830) [Hershkovitz (1966) call the type species of this genus Susu gangetica ]. It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Barnes and Reynolds (2009).
It was synonymized subjectively with Susu by Hershkovitz (1966).
It was assigned to Platanistina by Gray (1846); to Delphinidae by Gray (1850), Gorjanovic-Kramberger (1892); to Eurhinodelphinae by Trouessart (1904); to Iniinae by Zittel (1925); to Platanistinae by Gill (1871), Trouessart (1898), Weber (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Barnes (2002), Barnes (2006), Godfrey et al. (2017); and to Platanistidae by Gray (1863), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Gill (1872), Scott (1873), Cope (1890), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Winge (1921), Miller (1923), Muizon (1987), Pilleri (1989), Muizon (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Barnes and Reynolds (2009), Bianucci et al. (2013), Boersma and Pyenson (2016), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017), Kimura (2018), Braulik et al. (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Susu by Hershkovitz (1966).
It was assigned to Platanistina by Gray (1846); to Delphinidae by Gray (1850), Gorjanovic-Kramberger (1892); to Eurhinodelphinae by Trouessart (1904); to Iniinae by Zittel (1925); to Platanistinae by Gill (1871), Trouessart (1898), Weber (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Fraser and Purves (1960), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Barnes (2002), Barnes (2006), Godfrey et al. (2017); and to Platanistidae by Gray (1863), Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Gray (1871), Gill (1872), Scott (1873), Cope (1890), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912), Winge (1921), Miller (1923), Muizon (1987), Pilleri (1989), Muizon (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Rice (1998), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Barnes and Reynolds (2009), Bianucci et al. (2013), Boersma and Pyenson (2016), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017), Kimura (2018), Braulik et al. (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1828 | Susu Lesson |
| 1830 | Platanista Wagler |
| 1836 | Sousou Cuvier p. 257 |
| 1837 | Soosoo Hamilton p. 254 |
| 1846 | Platanista Gray p. 45 |
| 1850 | Platanista Gray p. 137 |
| 1863 | Platanista Gray p. 199 |
| 1866 | Platanista Gray p. 221 |
| 1868 | Platanista Gray p. 4 |
| 1871 | Platanista Gill p. 125 |
| 1871 | Platanista Gray p. 62 |
| 1872 | Platanista Gill p. 95 |
| 1873 | Platanista Scott p. 64 |
| 1890 | Platanista Cope p. 604 |
| 1892 | Platanista Gorjanovic-Kramberger p. 12 |
| 1898 | Platanista Trouessart p. 1017 |
| 1904 | Platanista Palmer p. 542 |
| 1904 | Platanista Trouessart p. 761 |
| 1912 | Platanista Turner p. 94 |
| 1921 | Platanista Winge p. 8 |
| 1923 | Platanista Miller p. 40 |
| 1925 | Platanista Zittel p. 87 |
| 1928 | Platanista Weber p. 389 |
| 1945 | Platanista Simpson p. 101 |
| 1951 | Platanista Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 719 |
| 1960 | Platanista Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Platanista Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1966 | Susu Hershkovitz p. 13 |
| 1973 | Platanista Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1987 | Platanista Muizon p. 13 |
| 1989 | Platanista Pilleri p. 121 |
| 1994 | Platanista Muizon p. 136 figs. Table 1 |
| 1997 | Platanista McKenna and Bell p. 383 |
| 1998 | Platanista Rice p. 92 |
| 2001 | Platanista Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2002 | Platanista Barnes p. 410 |
| 2003 | Platanista Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2005 | Platanista Mead and Brownell p. 738 |
| 2006 | Platanista Barnes p. 32 |
| 2008 | Platanista Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2009 | Platanista Barnes and Reynolds p. 486 |
| 2013 | Platanista Bianucci et al. p. 744 figs. Figure 3 |
| 2016 | Platanista Boersma and Pyenson p. 12 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2016 | Platanista Marx et al. p. 120 figs. Figure 4.25 |
| 2017 | Platanista Berta p. 163 |
| 2017 | Platanista Godfrey et al. figs. Figure 6 |
| 2018 | Platanista Kimura p. 4 |
| 2021 | Platanista Braulik et al. p. 29 |
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G. Platanista Wagler 1830
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Platanista gangetica Leebeck 1801
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Invalid names: Delphinorhynchus gangeticus Lesson 1827 [synonym], Delphinus shawensis Blainville 1817 [synonym], Platanista indi Blyth 1859 [synonym], Susu platanista Lesson 1828 [synonym]
Platanista minor Owen 1853
Invalid names: Susu Lesson 1828 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available