🐋Amazon river dolphin
דולפין האמזונאס (שם מדעי: Inia geoffrensis) הוא מין במשפחת האיניים (Iniidae) מתת סדרת לווייתני שיניים. הוא חי במים מתוקים או במי נהרות, והוא אנדמי לנהרות האמזונאס והאורינוקו. שמות נוספים לדולפין זה הם בוטו אמזוני ופוקנת האמזונאס.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 99 kg
- Body length
- 2.56 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 31 years
Everything we know about the Amazon river dolphin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass99 kgrecord 160 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 84 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length2.56 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female2.3 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 2.8 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass610 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan31 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 31 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length13 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity3.5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation299 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 287 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l99 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Amazon river dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyIniidae
- ›genusInia
- ›speciesInia geoffrensis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusInia
All 15 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyIniidae
- genusInia
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