Order Cetacea Author James G. Mead Author Robert L. Brownell, Jr. text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 349 364 book chapter 193271 10.5281/zenodo.7352970 b3335890-cc2a-4092-9ace-81c1cd7b5cad 1-56098-217-9 7352970 Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801) . Asiat. Res. Trans. Soc. (Calcutta ed.), 7:170 , pl. 5. TYPE LOCALITY: India , West Bengal , "in the Ganges... rivers, and creeks, which intersect in the delta of that river to the South, S. E. and east of Calcutta." (= Hooghly River, Ganges River delta) . DISTRIBUTION: India , Nepal , Bhutan , and Bangladesh : Ganges, Bramaputra, Meghna, Karnaphuli, and Hooghly river systems. STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Reeves and Brownell (1989). Formerly included minor (= indi ), see van Bree (1976), Pilleri and Gihr (1971), and Pilleri (1978).