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Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living genus, Inia, and four extinct genera. The extant genus inhabits the river basins of South America , but the family formerly had a wider presence across the Atlantic Ocean .
The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the boto, bufeo or pink river dolphin, is a species of toothed whale endemic to South America and is classified in the family Iniidae. Three subspecies are currently recognized: I. g. geoffrensis (Amazon river dolphin), I. g. boliviensis ( Bolivian river dolphin ) and I. g. humboldtiana ...
River dolphins are rather small, ranging in size from the 5-foot (1.5 m) long South Asian river dolphin to the 8-foot (2.4 m) and 220-pound (100 kg) Amazon river dolphin. They all have female-biased sexual dimorphism apart from Amazon river dolphin, with the females being larger than the males.
Species Inia humboldtiana – Orinoco river dolphin; IUCN Classification. Genus Inia. Species Inia geoffrensis – Amazon river dolphin. Amazon Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis; Bolivian Subspecies I. g. boliviensis; Orinoco Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana; Society For Marine Mammalogy Classification. Genus Inia. Species Inia geoffrensis – Amazon ...
Aerial urination by the Amazon dolphin (Claryana Araújo-Wang) The study documents 36 instances of “aerial urination” by boto between 2014 and 2018 and records the sequence, duration and ...
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).
The Amazon river dolphins, many of a striking pink color, are a unique freshwater species found only in the rivers of South America and are one of a handful of freshwater dolphin species left in ...
MANAUS (Reuters) -The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe ...