Marine mammals
🐋Indus river dolphin
Platanista minor Owen, 1853
נהרתן האינדוס (שם מדעי: Platanista minor) הוא מין של דולפין נהרות החי בטבע בנהר האינדוס שבהודו ופקיסטן ומצוי בסכנת הכחדה. הוא קרוב משפחתו של נהרתן הגנגס ועד שנת 1970 גם נחשב לתת-מין שלו.
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Also called
Platanista minor, Bhulan
Conservation status
ENEndangered
IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
Population trendIncreasing
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- Maximum lifespan
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyPlatanistidae
- ›genusPlatanista
- ›speciesPlatanista gangetica
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- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusPlatanista
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderWhippomorpha
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- familyPlatanistidae
- genusPlatanista
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In other languages
Indus-Delfin (de), Platanista minor (es), Dauphin de l'Indus (fr), Platanista minor (it), İndus nehir yunusu (tr), Cá heo sông Ấn (vi) … and 18 more languages
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