Common dolphin, Delphinus delphis 1, common porpoise, Phocoena phocoena 2, and southern right whale dolphin, Lissodelphis peronii 4. Skull of the endangered Ganges river dolphin, Platanista gangetica 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Édouard Traviès from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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