Crossword-Solution: PLATANISTIDAE
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| ASIAN river dolphin (family) | 1 answer |
| RIVER dolphin (family) | 1 answer |
| SOUTH Asian river dolphin (family) | 1 answer |
| South Asia river dolphins | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
LODRSA
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BACK ___!
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Sentences with PLATANISTIDAE (5)
The toothed whales are divided into the Physeteridae, the Delphinidae, and the Platanistidae, which latter is placed between the two other families, and is divided into the sub-families Iniinae and Platanistinae.) that these fresh-water porpoises form two sub-families, making an extremely isolated and intermediate, very small family.
Beside these there is another group of largely freshwater species, constituting the family _Platanistidae_, and typified by the susu (_Platanista gangetica_), extensively distributed throughout nearly the whole of the river-systems of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus, ascending as high as there is water enough to swim in, but never passing out to sea.
The "face" is therefore long, and in some cases, especially among the fossil forms of Platanistidae, the rostrum is extraordinarily elongated.
Externally, besides its colour, the Beluga is remarkable for possessing a distinct neck, which is correlated of course with the freedom of the cervical vertebrae, and is also seen in Platanistidae.
Extinct Dolphins, apparently referable to the Platanistidae, are the most numerous among the earlier forms of Cetaceans, and it is significant that the earliest known forms of these go back to the Eocene.