Definition of Family Platanistidae

1. Noun. River dolphins.

Exact synonyms: Platanistidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Odontoceti, Suborder Odontoceti
Member holonyms: River Dolphin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Platanistidae

family Physidae
family Phytolaccaceae
family Picidae
family Pieridae
family Pinaceae
family Pinnotheridae
family Piperaceae
family Pipidae
family Pipridae
family Pittidae
family Plantaginaceae
family Plasmodiidae
family Plasmodiophoraceae
family Plataleidae
family Platanaceae
family Platanistidae (current term)
family Platycephalidae
family Plethodontidae
family Pleurobrachiidae
family Pleuronectidae
family Ploceidae
family Plumbaginaceae
family Pluteaceae
family Poaceae
family Podargidae
family Podicipedidae
family Podocarpaceae
family Poeciliidae
family Polemoniaceae
family Polyangiaceae

Literary usage of Family Platanistidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"Family PLATANISTIDAE. The teeth are undifferentiated, conical and single-toothed; the pre- maxillary is without teeth; the nose is extended into a long and ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"The probabilities are, therefore, that these elements were cartilaginous, a feature which Flower considers to be characteristic of the family Platanistidae. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"... (the so-called " river-dolphins ") are united to form the family Platanistidae, but Professor Abel ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Otherwise the family Platanistidae would be extremely distinct. The two last-named genera have separate cervical vertebrae, arid in the Beluga at any rate ..."

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