Osteological Alterations in the Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis (Cetacea, Delphinidae) [PDF]
We present a description of osteological alterations observed in the tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais, 1853) from a sample of 43 specimens. Fractures were the most frequent alterations in the sample (16%), occurring in various regions of the skeleton such as the ribs, hyoid apparatus, transverse and neural processes of vertebrae and scapula.
Vera Maria Ferreira da Silva +1 more
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Pontoporia blainvillei (Gervais & D' Orbigny, 1844) and Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais, 1853) have typically coastal habits and are sympatric in South-eastern Brazil.
Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto +1 more
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Towards automated long-term acoustic monitoring of endangered river dolphins: a case study in the Brazilian Amazon floodplains [PDF]
Using passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and convolutional neural networks (CNN), we monitored the movements of the two endangered Amazon River dolphin species, the boto (Inia geoffrensis) and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) from main rivers to ...
Florence Erbs +6 more
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Human-wildlife conflicts with crocodilians, cetaceans and otters in the tropics and subtropics [PDF]
Conservation of freshwater biodiversity and management of human-wildlife conflicts are major conservation challenges globally. Human-wildlife conflict occurs due to attacks on people, depredation of fisheries, damage to fishing equipment and entanglement
Patrick Cook +3 more
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Western Amazon Basin limits: conservation status and distribution of river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis and Sotalia fluviatilis) in Ecuador [PDF]
River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis and Sotalia fluviatilis) are apex predators in Ecuador’s Amazon, where they face critical endangerment due to their restricted western range limit and escalating anthropogenic pressures.
Jessica Pacheco-Esquivel +8 more
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Placentation in dolphins from the Amazon River Basin: the Boto, Inia geoffrensis, and the Tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis [PDF]
A recent reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of cetaceans makes it timely to compare their placentation with that of the artiodactyls. We studied the placentae of two sympatric species of dolphin from the Amazon River Basin, representing two ...
Bonatelli Marina +6 more
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Molecular sexing of tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia guianensis and Sotalia fluviatilis) using samples from biopsy darting and decomposed carcasses [PDF]
We tested the zinc-finger sex chromosome-linked genes Zfx/Zfy and the sex-determining region Y (Sry) genes for gender determination of biopsy samples from marine and riverine tucuxi dolphins (Sotalia guianensis and S. fluviatilis).
Haydée A. Cunha, Antonio M. Solé-Cava
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The tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis is a species of river dolphin from the Amazon basin. The species is insufficiently known by science, and completely lacking information for the state of Amapá.
Andréa de Araújo +2 more
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Initial Evidence for Adaptive Selection on the NADH Subunit Two of Freshwater Dolphins by Analyses of Mitochondrial Genomes. [PDF]
A small number of cetaceans have adapted to an entirely freshwater environment, having colonized rivers in Asia and South America from an ancestral origin in the marine environment. This includes the 'river dolphins', early divergence from the odontocete
Susana Caballero +4 more
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On the brink of isolation: Population estimates of the Araguaian river dolphin in a human-impacted region in Brazil. [PDF]
Populations of freshwater dolphins are declining in response to increased human pressure, including habitat degradation, overfishing, bycatch, poaching and obstruction of free-flowing river corridors by dams. At least three river dolphin species occur in
Mariana Paschoalini +8 more
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