tucuxi

Other aquatic mammals include the tucuxi or grey dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis, giant otter (EN) and longtailed otter.

Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

Rare and endangered species include the birds scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber), and wattled jacana (Jacana jacana), the mammals tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) and manatee Trichechus manatus, and several marine turtles, for whom it is a breeding area.

Maranhao mangroves 2007

TucuxiLike the boto, the tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis fluviatilis, also inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco river systems.

Hic jacet Lipotes vexillifer: Here lies the baiji 2006

TucuxiLike the boto, the tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis fluviatilis, also inhabits the Amazon and Orinoco river systems.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

One is the tucuxi, dark and in appearance very much like its marine relative.

One River Wade Davis 1996

One is the tucuxi, dark and in appearance very much like its marine relative.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In the Lower Amazon are two species; one of which, -- the tucuxi, -- when it comes to the surface to breathe, rises horizontally, showing first the back of its fin, and then, drawing an inspiration, generally diving down head-foremost; and another, called the bonto by the natives.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

However, a recent study of the tucuxi variety has proven that the behavior may be more widespread than thought.

Softpedia News - Global 2009

Rare and endangered species found in this ecoregion include the birds, scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber), and wattled jacana (Jacana jacana), the mammals tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) and manatee (Trichechus manatus), and two marine turtles, the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea).

Pará mangroves 2007

André and his colleagues wanted to explore the activity of two species, the boto (Inia geoffrensis) — also known as the pink river dolphin — and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) across the floodplains of the Mamirauá reserve in northern Brazil.

AI helps scientists to eavesdrop on endangered pink dolphins Lilly Tozer 2023