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Platanista minor

Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

Taxonomy
Platanista gangetica minor was named by Owen (1853) [type specimen is in the Museum of Royal College of Surgeons]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Platanista minor by Reeves and Chaudhry (1998), Mead and Brownell (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Braulik et al. (2021) and Bianucci and Collareta (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1853Platanista gangetica minor Owen p. 448
1998Platanista minor Reeves and Chaudhry p. 35
1998Platanista gangetica minor Rice p. 92
2005Platanista minor Mead and Brownell p. 738
2008Platanista minor Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5
2021Platanista minor Braulik et al. p. 31
2021Platanista gangetica minor Jefferson p. 58
2022Platanista minor Bianucci and Collareta

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
—Amblyoccipita
—Stegoceti
familyPlatanistidae()
genusPlatanistaWagler 1830
speciesminor(Owen 1853)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Platanista minor Owen 1853
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. T. Braulik et al. 2021Indus river dolphin skulls can be differentiated from those of the Ganges river dolphin by the absence of a projection at the frontal suture above the nasals and behind the maxillary crests on the skull (Figure 4). While there is some overlap in tooth counts between Indus and Ganges river dolphins, all skulls with more than 33 teeth in the upper tooth rows are Indus river dolphins. The Indus river dolphin has three unique mtDNA haplotypes (HAP1-3, see Braulik, Barnett, et al., 2015, GenBank accession numbers KJ629309, KJ629310 & AJ554058) with five fixed differ- ences separating it from the Ganges river dolphin.