Indus River Dolphin
Platanista minor
- Endangered
- Card rarity: Epic
- Mammals
The Indus river dolphin is a freshwater dolphin in the family Platanistidae. It is endemic to the rivers of the Indus basin in Pakistan and northwestern India. It was the first discovered side-swimming cetacean. In Pakistan, it occurs in the Indus River, where five small sub-populations are separated by irrigation barrages. In India, a very small isolated population at a very high risk of extinction lives in the Beas River. It is the national mammal of Pakistan and the state aquatic animal of Punjab, India.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Artiodactyla
- Family
- Platanistidae
- Genus
- Platanista