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Taxon: Family Pontoporiidae Gray, 1870 - Franciscana, La Plata dolphin (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (Gray, 1870) Kasuya, 1973
Original name:  Gray, 1870:393.
Subsequent rank:  Kasuya 1973.: 61.

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Pontoporiinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1870
Type: Pontoporia (Genus) Gray, 1846 Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 133. [inferred]

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Stenodelphinae (Family) (True, 1908) Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
In: Platanistidae (Family) Gray, 1846 Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1037.
Including: Stenodelphidae (Family)

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: Franciscana, La Plata dolphin
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