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Inia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Artiodactyla

Family
  
Iniidae

Higher classification
  
Iniidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Infraorder
  
Cetacea

Scientific name
  
Inia

Rank
  
Genus

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Amazon river dolp, Iniidae, Cetaceans, Sotalia, Mammal

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Inia is a genus of river dolphins from South America. It contains one to three species.

Contents

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Taxonomy

The genus was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1834 when Delphinus geoffrensis, described by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1817, was recognized to be a unique taxon. A 1998 classification listed a single species, Inia geoffrensis, in the genus Inia, with three recognized subspecies. Most of the scientific community accepted this single species classification, as did the IUCN. In 2012 the Society for Marine Mammalogy started considering the Bolivian (Inia geoffrensis boliviensis) subspecies as a full species, Inia boliviensis. In 2014, the population in the Araguaia-Tocantins basin was recognized to be an additional species, Inia araguaiaensis.

  • Genus Inia
  • Species Inia geoffrensis - Amazon river dolphin
  • Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis
  • Subspecies I. g. boliviensis
  • Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana

    • Alternate classification

  • Genus Inia
  • Species Inia araguaiaensis - Araguaian river dolphin
  • Species Inia boliviensis - Bolivian river dolphin
  • Species Inia geoffrensis - Amazon river dolphin
  • Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis
  • Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana

    • References

    Inia Wikipedia
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