🐋Ganges river dolphin
Гангский дельфин, или сусук, или слепой дельфин, или сузу (лат. Platanista gangetica), — водное млекопитающее парвотряда зубатых китов, представитель нетаксономической группы речных дельфинов. В 1970-х гг. единый вид Platanista gangetica был разделён на 2 вида: гангский и индский дельфины (лат. Platanista minor), после того, как выяснилось, что популяции Инда и Ганга не скрещивались уже несколько сотен тысяч лет (по современным данным — около 550 000 лет). Однако в таксономической классификации 1998 года (Rice) оба вида вновь были объединены на основании того, что морфологические различия между ними незначительны. Согласно таксономической ревизии 2021 года, индский и гангский дельфины всё же образуют два самостоятельных вида.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 85 kg
- Body length
- 3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 28 years
Everything we know about the Ganges river dolphin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass85 kgrecord 108 kg · SeaLifeBaseCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
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Figures vary
- 70 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length3 mCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female2.6 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Figures vary
- 2.2 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Brain mass230 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan28 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length19 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity10.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation314 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 345 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l85 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 Ganges river dolphin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCetacea
- ›familyPlatanistidae
- ›genusPlatanista
- ›speciesPlatanista gangetica
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- infraorderWhales & dolphins · Cetacea
- genusPlatanista
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
- familyPlatanistidae
- genusPlatanista
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