| Sotalia | |
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| JumpingSotalia in theOrinoco river | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Delphinidae |
| Subfamily: | Stenoninae |
| Genus: | Sotalia Gray, 1866[1] |
| Type species | |
| Delphinus guianensis[2] Van Beneden, 1864 | |
| Species | |
S. fluviatilis | |
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| Native range ofSotalita sp. | |
ThedolphingenusSotalia is considered to have two memberspecies with the classification ofSotalia guianensis[3][4] as a distinct species fromSotalia fluviatilis[5][6] in 2007. This was a result of recent morphometric analyses, as well asmitochondrial DNA analysis.[7]
Members of this genus are found in theAtlantic andCaribbean coasts ofCentral andSouth America as well as in theAmazon River and most of itstributaries.[4]
