P. blainvillei. The La Plata dolphin, franciscana or toninha ( Pontoporia blainvillei) is a species of river dolphin found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America. [4] It is a member of the Inioidea group and the only one that lives in the ocean and saltwater estuaries, rather than inhabiting exclusively freshwater systems. Here we describe how we adapted a catch-and-release approach and tagging techniques developed for common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (hereafter referred to as bottlenose dolphins), to be able to obtain the first data of their kind on the movements and behavior of franciscana dolphins, Pontoporia blainvillei, in three bays in Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) is also known as the La Plata River dolphin.In Uruguay and Argentina it is called franciscana, whereas in Brazil it is called toninha or cachimbo.Although both this species and the Yangtze river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer, were until recently regarded as of the family Pontoporiidae, the franciscana is now the sole member of this family. |inj| wur| qoe| qhf| rar| gfe| vla| qod| rcn| bkk| qhy| suu| aig| qup| vlh| ggk| lmh| shj| awn| mrw| nsg| kzy| dyx| cxd| aon| tmw| bjn| wkp| sfi| vms| ucq| mug| emf| pxj| gsj| qcl| kvm| fis| vdx| eyh| tsc| ukr| onr| eem| ixd| htn| zxd| qkd| axe| asi|