Class MAMMALIA: Order CETACEA 



Suborder ODONTOCETI 



Family SUSUIDAE 



Genus PONTOPORIA Gray 



Pontoporia Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and 

 Terror, 1 (Mammalia) : 46; 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870: 772 

 [external characters; classification]. — Gervais, in Van Beneden and 

 Gervais, 1880, Osteographie des cetaces, p. 476 [characters; tax- 

 onomy]. — Beddard, 1900, Book of whales, p. 301 [characters; Stenodel- 

 phis a synonym]. — Fraser, in Norman and Fraser, 1938, Giant fishes, 

 whales and dolphins, p. 342 [characters]. — Winge, 1942, Interrelation- 

 ships of the mammalian genera [English translation], 3: 245, 247 

 [characters; interrelationships; Stenodelphis a synonym]. — Hershkovitz, 

 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 554 [nomenclature; Pontoporia Gray, 1846, 

 not a homonym of Pontoporeia Kroyer, 1842, or antedated by Pontoporia 

 Agassiz, 1846]. 



Stenodelphis d'Orbigny and Gervais, 1847, Voyage Amerique Merid., 

 4(Mamm.): 32 (in text) [type species: Stenodelphis Blainvillei Gervais, 

 by monotypy]. — Gervais, 1855, Hist. Nat. Mamm,, 2: 322 [characters; 

 Pontoporia Gray a synonym]. — Ameghino, 1891, Rev. Argentina Hist. 

 Nat., 1 : 254 [Pontoporia Gray regarded as "preoccupied" by Ponto- 

 poreia Kroyer, 1842, a genus of Crustacea; type species: Stenodelphis 

 Blainvillei Gervais]. — Kellogg, 1928, Quart. Rev. Biol., 3: 33 et seq. 

 [history; relationship]. — Carvalho, 1961, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 21(4): 

 443 [characters; comparisons]. 



Type species : Delphinus Blainvillei Gervais, by monotypy. 

 Distribution : Atlantic coast of South America from 30° S. to 42°30' S. 



Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais and d'Orbigny 

 Delphinus Blainvillei Gervais and d'Orbigny, 1844, Bull. Soc. Philom., 



pp. 38, 39 (Apr. 27). 

 Delphinus Blainvillei d'Orbigny and Gervais, 1847, Voyage Amerique 



Merid., 4(Mamm.): 31, pi. 25 (animal; skull; teeth). 

 Pontoporia Blainvillii [sic], Gray, 1846, Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. 

 Erebus and Terror, 1 (Mammalia): 46, pi. 29, figs. 1, 2 (skull) [charac- 

 ters; classification]; 1850, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus., Cetacea, p. 134, 

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