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Sotalia fluviatilis
Taxonomy
Delphinus fluviatilis was named by Gervais and Deville (1853). It is extant. Its type locality is Rio Maranon, which is in a Holocene fluvial horizon in Peru.
It was recombined as Steno fluviatilis by Gray (1866), Scott (1873); it was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia tucuxi by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Sotalia tucuxi fluviatilis by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia pallida by Scheffer and Rice (1963); it was recombined as Sotalia fluviatilis by Hershkovitz (1966), da Silva and Best (1996), Rice (1998), Cunha et al. (2005), Mead and Brownell (2005), Perrin et al. (2013), Jefferson (2021).
It was recombined as Steno fluviatilis by Gray (1866), Scott (1873); it was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia tucuxi by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Sotalia tucuxi fluviatilis by Trouessart (1904); it was synonymized subjectively with Sotalia pallida by Scheffer and Rice (1963); it was recombined as Sotalia fluviatilis by Hershkovitz (1966), da Silva and Best (1996), Rice (1998), Cunha et al. (2005), Mead and Brownell (2005), Perrin et al. (2013), Jefferson (2021).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1853 | Delphinus fluviatilis Gervais p. 148 |
| 1853 | Delphinus fluviatilis Gervais and Deville p. 148 |
| 1855 | Delphinus pallidus Gervais |
| 1855 | Sotalia pallidus Gervais p. 94 figs. Pl. 19, Fig. 1, 2 |
| 1856 | Sotalia tucuxi Gray p. 158 |
| 1857 | Steno tucuxi Gray |
| 1866 | Steno tucuxi Gray p. 213 |
| 1866 | Steno (Tucuxa) tucuxi Gray p. 236 |
| 1866 | Steno fluviatilis Gray p. 237 |
| 1866 | Steno pallidus Gray p. 237 |
| 1868 | Steno tucuxi Gray p. 5 |
| 1871 | Steno tucuxi Gray p. 66 |
| 1873 | Steno fluviatilis Scott p. 71 |
| 1875 | Sotalia brasiliensis Van Beneden p. 1 figs. Plate 1 |
| 1880 | Delphinus tuchuschi Van Beneden and Gervais p. 595 |
| 1898 | Sotalia tucuxi Trouessart p. 1027 |
| 1898 | Sotalia brasiliensis Trouessart p. 1028 |
| 1904 | Sotalia brasiliensis Trouessart p. 763 |
| 1904 | Sotalia tucuxi Trouessart p. 763 |
| 1904 | Sotalia tucuxi fluviatilis Trouessart p. 763 |
| 1904 | Sotalia tucuxi pallidus Trouessart p. 763 |
| 1963 | Sotalia brasiliensis Scheffer and Rice p. 7 |
| 1963 | Sotalia pallida Scheffer and Rice p. 7 |
| 1966 | Sotalia fluviatilis Hershkovitz p. 18 |
| 1966 | Sotalia brasiliensis Hershkovitz p. 69 |
| 1996 | Sotalia fluviatilis da Silva and Best p. 1 |
| 1998 | Sotalia fluviatilis Rice p. 104 |
| 2005 | Sotalia fluviatilis Cunha et al. |
| 2005 | Sotalia fluviatilis Mead and Brownell p. 732 |
| 2013 | Sotalia fluviatilis Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1 |
| 2021 | Sotalia fluviatilis Jefferson p. 22 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Sotalia fluviatilis Gervais and Deville 1853
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Invalid names: Delphinus pallidus Gervais 1855 [synonym], Delphinus tuchuschi Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 [synonym], Sotalia brasiliensis Van Beneden 1875 [synonym], Sotalia pallida Gervais 1855 [synonym], Steno tucuxi Gray 1857 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Uhen 2004, Nowak 1991 | |||||