Order Cetacea Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 290 304 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352983 0-89327-235-3 7352983 Platanista gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801) . Asiat. Res. Trans. Soc., 7: 171 . TYPE LOCALITY: India , West Bengal , Hooghly River (Ganges River delta) near Calcutta . DISTRIBUTION: Ganges, Bramaputra, Meghna, Karnaphuli, and Hooghly river systems ( India , Nepal and Bangladesh ). COMMENT: Formerly included minor (=indi, a junior synonym); see Van Bree, 1976 , Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amst., 5(17): 139-140; Pilleri and Gihr, 1971 , Invest. Cetacea , 3: 13-21, and Pilleri and Gihr, 1976, 6: 105- 118. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Platanista spp. ISIS NUMBER: 5301411001003001001.