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Iniidae
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Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living genus, Inia, and four extinct genera. The living genus lives in the river basins of South America, but the family formerly had a wider presence across the Atlantic Ocean.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCetacea
- FamilyIniidae
Les Inidés (Iniidae) forment une famille de dauphins vivant surtout en eau douce. Aujourd'hui elle ne comprend que le boto (Inia geoffrensis) mais certaines classifications y incluent encore les genres Lipotes et Pontoporia, appartenant respectivement aux familles des Lipotidae et des Pontoporiidae. Liste des genres et espèces † Goniodelphis G. hudsoni Inia Inia geoffrensis — Boto I. g. geoffrensis I. g. boliviensis I. g. humboldtiana † Ischyrorhynchus (syn. Anisodelphis) I. vanbenedeni (syn. Anisodelphis brevirostratus) † Saurocetes (syn. Saurodelphis, Pontoplanodes) S. argentinus (syn. Pontoplanodes obliquus) S. gigas
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Iniidae
- Collections
- USNM, UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Evolution
- Morphology
- Speciation
- Taxonomy
- References
Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living genus, Inia, and four extinct genera. The living genus lives in the river basins of South America, but the family formerly had a wider presence across the Atlantic Ocean.
Iniidae are highly morphologically different from marine dolphins due to adaptations suited to their freshwater river habitat. They display high amounts of sexual dimorphism through color and size. Seasonal movement between flooded plains and rivers is common, due to the variation of seasonal rain. There has been little research done on the family, in particular the species aside from the Amazon river dolphin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iniidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.