Family Platanistidae (river dolphins) 

 Subfamily Platanistinae 



Genus Platanista Wagler, 1830 

 Platanista pangetica Lebeck, 1801 (susu; 

 Ganges dolphin). Indus, Ganges, and Brah- 

 maputra Rivers of India. 

 Subfamily Iniinae 



Genus Inia D'Orbigny, 1834 

 Inia geoffrensis Blainville, 1817 (boto; bufeo; 

 Amazon dolphin). South America, in Ama- 

 zon and Orinoco basins. 

 Genus Lipotes Miller, 1918 

 Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918 (white flag 

 dolphin; pei c'hi; Chinese lake dolphin). 

 Restricted to Tung Ting Lake on the upper 

 Yangtse River, China. 

 Subfamily Pontoporiinae (= Stenodelphinae) 

 Genus Pontoporia Gray, 1846 (= Stenodelphis 

 D'Orbigny and Gervais, 1847) 

 Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais, 1844 (La 

 Plata dolphin; franciscana). South America, 

 in Rio de la Plata and adjacent coastal 

 waters. 



Family Delphinidae (ocean dolphins) 

 Subfamily Monodontinae (white whale and nar- 

 whal) 

 Genus Delphinapterus Lacep^de, 1804 

 belphinapterus leucas Pallas, 1776 (white 

 whale; beluga). Arctic Ocean and adjacent 

 seas. Three races are recognized (Tomilin, 

 1957): fj. I. dorofeevi Barabash and Klumov, 

 1935, from Okhotsk Sea; D. I. m ari s alb i 

 Ostroumov, 1935 (= D. I. freimani Klumov, 

 1935) in Barents and White Seas; and [). I. 

 leucas in remainder of range. 

 Genus Monodon Linnaeus, 1758 

 Monodon monoceros Linnaeus, 1758 (nar- 

 whal). Atlantic sector of Arctic Ocean. 

 Subfamily Delphininae 



Genus Phocoena G. Cuvier, 1817. According 

 to Norris and McFarland (1958) there are 

 four species: 



Phocoena phocoena Linnaeus, 1758. (Harbor 

 porpoise). Coastal waters of North Atlantic 

 and North Pacific north to Arctic Ocean in 

 summer; West Africa. The Pacific form is 

 sometimes (e.g., Tomilin, 1957) regarded as 

 a distinct race, P. p. vomerina Gill, 1865, 

 but according to Nonis and McFarland, it 

 is not separable. The isolated population 

 in the Black Sea has been separated as 

 P. p. relicta Abel, 1905. 



Phocoena liinus Norris and McFarland, 1958 

 (Gulf of California porpoise). Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia and probably subtropical waters off 

 the west coast of Mexico. 



Phocoena dioptricaLahille, 1912 (spectacled 

 porpoise). South Atlantic: Argentina, Falk- 

 land Islands, and South Georgia. 



Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 (Bur- 

 meister porpoise; black porpoise). Argen- 

 tina, Chile, and Peru. 

 Genus Neophocaena Palmer, 1899 (= Neomeris 

 Gray, 1846, preoccupied). 



Neophocaena phocaenoides G. Cuvier, 1829 

 (black finless porpoise). Warm coastal 

 waters and certain rivers from Japan, Bor- 

 neo, and Java, west to India. The type spec- 

 imen allegedly came from the Cape of Good 

 Hope; the species does not occur there, ac- 

 cording to Barnard (1954), yet Gibson-Mill 

 (1950) claimed to have observed it off the 

 coast of South Africa. 

 Genus Phocoenoides Andrews, 1911 



Phocoenoides dalli True, 1885 (Dall por- 

 poise). North Pacific. 



Phocoenoides iruei Andrews, 1911. Japa- 

 nese waters. Taxonomic status problemati- 

 cal; range overlaps that of P. dalli, but the 

 two forms never mix in the same school and 

 no intermediate forms have been found (K. W. 

 Kenyon, personal communication). 

 Genus Cephalorhynchus Gray, 1846. Accord- 

 ing to Fraser (1949, p. 315) in this genus 

 are included "a number of southern, mostly 

 cold-water dolphins of small size, porpoise- 

 like form and striking black and white colora- 

 tion." The taxonomy of the group is very 

 poorly understood (Harmer, 1922). The fol- 

 lowing forms are currently recognized: 



Cephalorhynchus commersoni Lacep^de,1804 

 (Commerson dolphin; piebald dolphin). 

 Tierra del Fuego, Strait of Magellan, coast 

 of Patagonia, and Falkland Islands; also 

 Kerguelen Island in the southern Indian 

 Ocean. 



Cephalorhynchus eutropia Gray, 1849 (= C. 

 at hi V enlri s Perez, 1896) (white-bellied 

 dolphin; black dolphin). Coast of Chile. 

 (Fraser, 1949, used the name albiventris, 

 but gave no reason for rejecting the name 

 eutropia.) 



Cephalorhynchus heavisidei Gray, 1828 

 (tonine; lieaviside dolphin). Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



