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    Pontoporiidae is a family of toothed whales, containing the extant genus Pontoporia, and ten extinct genera. Pontoporia contains the sole extant species...
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    Lipotidae, Monodontidae, Phocoenidae, Physeteridae, Platanistidae, Pontoporiidae, Ziphiidae, and Hippopotamidae, and includes the aquatic whales and...
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  • Marine mammals comprise over 130 living and recently extinct species in three taxonomic orders. The Society for Marine Mammalogy, an international scientific...
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    distinct species. The La Plata dolphin is the only species of the family Pontoporiidae and genus Pontoporia. These dolphins are known for their long beak in...
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    Lipotidae (Yangtze River dolphin), Iniidae (the Amazonian dolphins) and Pontoporiidae. There are five extant species of river dolphins. River dolphins, alongside...
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    Baiji (functionally extinct) Inioidea Iniidae: Amazonian river dolphins Pontoporiidae: La Plata dolphin Delphinoidea Monodontidae: Beluga and narwhal Phocoenidae:...
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  • Brazil has the largest mammal diversity in the world, with more than 600 described species and more likely to be discovered. According to the International...
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    La Plata dolphin (category Pontoporiidae)
    species in its genus, Pontoporia, and is often placed in its own family, Pontoporiidae. It was first described by Paul Gervais and Alcide d'Orbigny in 1844...
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    (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese...
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    Subspecies Inia geoffrensis humboldtiana, Humboldt's river dolphin Family Pontoporiidae Genus Pontoporia Species Pontoporia blainvillei, la Plata dolphin or...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Lipotidae), South American river dolphins (Iniidae), and La Plata dolphin (Pontoporiidae). Whales are descendants of land-dwelling mammals of the artiodactyl...
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    monophyletic grouping, with the Lipotidae as the sister taxa to (Iniidae + Pontoporiidae), and is well congruent with the studies based on short interspersed...
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  • The list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct genera and species of the order Cetacea. The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    Family Platanistidae: South Asian river dolphin (one species) Family Pontoporiidae: La Plata dolphin (one species) Superfamily Ziphioidea Family Ziphiidae:...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    Iniidae: (1-4 species) Amazon River dolphin (South America) Family Pontoporiidae: (1 species) La Plata River dolphin (South America) Family Lipotidae:...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    closely related to other river dolphins of the families Lipotidae, Pontoporiidae, and Iniidae, which all independently adapted to freshwater habitats...
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    (old world river dolphins) Iniidae (new world river dolphins), and Pontoporiidae (La Plata dolphins) Porpoises, with one family: Phocoenidae The term...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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    (Oceanic dolphins) Monodontidae Phocoenidae (Porpoises) Physeteridae Kogiidae Iniidae Lipotidae Platanistidae Pontoporiidae Ziphiidae (Beaked whales)...
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