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

1. Hershkovitz, Philip, 1966: Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin, no. 246. viii + 259.
2. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1565 Platanista Wagler, 1830 (Mammalia, Cetacea): conserved.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 46(3), 217-218 (1989)
3. 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.
4. 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.