Sotalia

The dolphin genus Sotalia is considered to have two member species with the classification of Sotalia guianensis^[3][4] as a distinct species from Sotalia fluviatilis^[5][6] in 2007. This was a result of recent morphometric analyses, as well as mitochondrial DNA analysis.^[7]

Sotalia
Jumping Sotalia in the Orinoco river
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Delphinidae
Subfamily:	Stenoninae
Genus:	Sotalia Gray, 1866[1]
Type species
Delphinus guianensis [2] Van Beneden, 1864
Species
S. fluviatilis S. guianensis
Native range of Sotalita sp.

Members of this genus are found in the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts of Central and South America as well as in the Amazon River and most of its tributaries.^[4]

Member species

• Sotalia fluviatilis (Gervais & Deville, 1853), Tucuxi
• Sotalia guianensis (van Bénéden, 1864), Costero or Guiana dolphin