Image ID: SIL-39088001745850_0499
Cite this: Anderson, John. 1878. Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875 and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella. v.1 [text] (1878), London : B. Quaritch.
Supplied Caption: Ganges River Dolphin anatomy.
Original Caption: PLATANISTA. A vertical section through the head of Platanista gangetica, slight to the right of the median line, designed to show the spiracular gavity and sacs, the fibrous blubber of the forehead, interior of brain cavity, and nerves supplying the teeth. The snout is curtailed, and the lower jaw, tongue, &c., have been cut away. Drawn from nature and reduced about 1/3rd [?] nat. size.
Taxonomic: Platanista gangetica