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Pontoporia blainvillei (Franciscana; La Plata dolphin)

Synonyms: Delphinus blainvillei; Pontoporia tenuirostris; Stenodelphis blainvillei; Stenodelphis tenuirostris

Wikipedia Abstract

The La Plata dolphin or Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) is found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America. It is a member of the river dolphin group and the only one that actually lives in the ocean and saltwater estuaries, rather than inhabiting exclusively freshwater systems.
View Wikipedia Record: Pontoporia blainvillei

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Pontoporia blainvillei

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
18
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
65
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 35.79
EDGE Score: 4.99
View EDGE Record: Pontoporia blainvillei

Attributes

Gestation [2]  10 months 19 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [4]  16 years
Snout to Vent Length [4]  5.74 feet (175 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Weaning [2]  10 months 19 days
Adult Weight [2]  89.288 lbs (40.50 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  17.417 lbs (7.90 kg)
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Forages - Marine [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bañados del Este Wetland Reserve 986054 Uruguay  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Notorynchus cepedianus (Tiger shark)[8]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE FRANCISCANA (PONTOPORIA BLAINVILLEI) IN MARINE AND ESTUARINE WATERS OF ARGENTINA, Diego Rodríguez, Laura Rivero and Ricardo Bastida, LAJAM 1(1): 77-94, Special Issue 1, 2002
♦ 6CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Reproduction, abundance and feeding habits of the broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus in north Patagonia, Argentina, Luis O. Lucifora, Roberto C. Menni, Alicia H. Escalante, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 289: 237–244, 2005
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0