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Inia

An Amazon River Dolphin at Duisburg Zoo.

Size comparison against an average human
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Eutheria
Order:	Cetacea
Suborder:	Odontoceti
Superfamily:	Inioidea^[1]
Family:	Iniidae Gray, 1846
Genera
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Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living and three extinct genera.

Taxonomy

The family was described by John Edward Gray in 1846.^[1]

Current classifications include a single living genera, Inia, with one species and three subsepcies. The family also includes three extinct genera described from fossils found in South America, Florida, Lybia, and Italy.^[1]

Superfamily Inioidea
- Family Iniidae
  - Genus †Goniodelphis
    - Species G. hudsoni
  - Genus Inia
    - Species Inia geoffrensis - Amazon River Dolphin
      - Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis
      - Subspecies I. g. boliviensis
      - Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana
  - Genus †Ischyrorhynchus (syn. Anisodelphis)
    - Species I. vanbenedeni (syn. Anisodelphis brevirostratus)
  - Genus †Saurocetes (syn. Saurodelphis, Pontoplanodes)
    - Species S. argentinus (syn. Pontoplanodes obliquus)
    - Species S. gigas

References

^ ^a ^b ^c The paleobiology Database

External links

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Extant Cetacea species

Kingdom Animalia · Phylum Chordata · Class Mammalia · Infraclass Eutheria · Superorder Laurasiatheria · (unranked) Cetartiodactyla · (unranked) Whippomorpha

Suborder Mysticeti (Baleen whales)

Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed whales) (cont. below)

Delphinidae
(Oceanic dolphins)

Cephalorhynchus	Commerson's Dolphin (C. commersonii) · Chilean Dolphin (C. eutropia) · Haviside's Dolphin (C. heavisidii) · Hector's Dolphin (C. hectori)

Delphinus	Long-beaked Common Dolphin (D. capensis) · Short-beaked Common Dolphin (D. delphis)

Feresa	Pygmy Killer Whale (F. attenuata)

Globicephala (Pilot whales)	Short-finned Pilot Whale (G. macrorhynchus) · Long-finned Pilot Whale (G. melas)

Grampus	Risso's Dolphin (G. griseus)

Lagenodelphis	Fraser's Dolphin (L. hosei)

Lagenorhynchus	Atlantic White-sided Dolphin (L. acutus) · White-beaked Dolphin (L. albirostris) · Peale's Dolphin (L. australis) · Hourglass Dolphin (L. cruciger) · Pacific White-sided Dolphin (L. obliquidens) · Dusky Dolphin (L. obscurus)

Lissodelphis (Right whale dolphins)	Northern Right Whale Dolphin (L. borealis) · Southern Right Whale Dolphin (L. peronii)

Orcaella	Irrawaddy Dolphin (O. brevirostris) · Australian Snubfin Dolphin (O. heinsohni)

Orcinus	Killer Whale (O. orca)

Peponocephala	Melon-headed Whale (P. electra)

Pseudorca	False Killer Whale (P. crassidens)

Sotalia	Tucuxi (S. fluviatilis) · Costero (S. guianensis)

Sousa	Pacific Humpback Dolphin (S. chinensis) · Indian Humpback Dolphin (S. plumbea) · Atlantic Humpback Dolphin (S. teuszii)

Stenella	Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (S. attenuata) · Clymene Dolphin (S. clymene) · Striped Dolphin (S. coeruleoalba) · Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (S. frontalis) · Spinner Dolphin (S. longirostris)

Steno	Rough-toothed Dolphin (S. bredanensis)

Tursiops	Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (T. aduncus) · Common Bottlenose Dolphin (T. truncatus)

Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed whales) (cont. above)

Monodontidae

Delphinapterus	Beluga (D. leucas)

Monodon	Narwhal (M. monoceros)

Phocoenidae
(Porpoises)

Neophocaena	Finless Porpoise (N. phocaeniodes)

Phocoena	Spectacled Porpoise (P. dioptrica) · Harbor Porpoise (P. phocoena) · Vaquita (P. sinus) · Burmeister's Porpoise (P. spinipinnis)

Phocoenoides	Dall's Porpoise (P. dalli)

Physeteridae

Physeter

Sperm Whale (P. macrocephalus)

Kogiidae

Kogia

Pygmy sperm whale (K. breviceps) · Dwarf sperm whale (K. simus)

Iniidae

Inia

Amazon River Dolphin (I. geoffrensis)

Lipotidae

Lipotes

Baiji (L. vexillifer)

Platanistidae

Platanista

Ganges and Indus River Dolphin (P. gangetica)

Pontoporiidae

Pontoporia

La Plata Dolphin (P. blainvillei)

Ziphidae
(Beaked whales)

Berardius	Arnoux's Beaked Whale (B. arnuxii) · Baird's Beaked Whale (B. bairdii)

Hyperoodon	Northern Bottlenose Whale (H. ampullatus) · Southern Bottlenose Whale (H. planifrons)

Indopacetus	Tropical Bottlenose Whale (I. pacificus)

Mesoplodon (Mesoplodont whales)	Sowerby's Beaked Whale (M. bidens) · Andrew's Beaked Whale (M. bowdoini) · Hubbs' Beaked Whale (M. carlhubbsi) · Blainville's Beaked Whale (M. densirostris) · Gervais' Beaked Whale (M. europaeus) · Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale (M. ginkgodens) · Gray's Beaked Whale (M. grayi) · Hector's Beaked Whale (M. hectori) · Strap-toothed Whale (M. layardii) · True's Beaked Whale (M. mirus) · Pygmy Beaked Whale (M. peruvianus) · Perrin's Beaked Whale (M. perrini) · Stejneger's Beaked Whale (M. stejnegeri) · Spade-toothed Whale (M. traversii)

Tasmacetus	Shepherd's Beaked Whale (T. sheperdi)

Ziphius	Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Z. cavirostris)

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