Platanistoidea
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Platanista + -oidea
Proper noun
[edit]Platanistoidea
- A taxonomic superfamily within the order Cetacea – river dolphins of south Asia.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (superfamily): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Artiodactyla – order; Cetacea - infraorder; Neoceti - clade; Odontoceti - parvorder; Delphinidae - family; Platanistida - infraorder
Hyponyms
[edit]- (superfamily): Platanistidae - sole extant family; †Allodelphinidae, †Dalpiazinidae, †Prosqualodontidae, †Squalodelphinidae, †Squalodontidae, †Waipatiidae - extinct families
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (superfamily): Lipotoidea - superfamily in Platanistida
References
[edit]- Platanistoidea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Platanistoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Platanistidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Platanistoidea at Paleobiology Database