Family Platanistidae

REVIEWED BY: R. L. Brownell, Jr. (RLB); J. G. Mead (JGM); D. W. Rice (DWR).

COMMENT: Includes Lipotes, Iniidae, and Pontoporiidae (Stenodelphinidae); see Rice, 1977; but also see Pilleri and Gihr, 1977, Invest. Cetacea, 8: 11 -76, and Pilleri and Gihr, 1980, Invest. Cetacea, 11:33-36. Zhou et al., 1979, Acta Zool. Sin., 25(2):95-100, placed Lipotes in a separate family, Lipotidae . RLB, DWR and JGM include the above as subfamilies of Platanistidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301411001000000000.