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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|0.012|0}} [[Quaternary]] – recent<ref name=fossilworks>{{cite web|title=Platanista Wagler 1830 (toothed whale)|url=http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=63564|website=Fossilworks|access-date=2020-12-11|archive-date=2018-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218193627/http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=63564|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| image = Platanista gangetica noaa.jpg
| image_caption = Ganges river dolphin leaping out of the water
| image2 = Ganges and Indus river dolphin size.svg
| image2_caption = Size compared to an average human
| status = EN
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |title=''Platanista gangetica'' |name-list-style=amp |author=Smith, B.D. |author2=Braulik, G.T. |page=e.T41758A50383612 |year=2017}}</ref>
| genus = Platanista
| parent_authority = Wagler, 1830
| species = gangetica
| authority = (Lebeck, 1801); (Roxburgh, 1801)
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision =
''Platanista gangetica gangetica'' 
''Platanista gangetica minor''
| range_map = Cetacea_range_map_Indus_and_Ganges_River_Dolphin_2.png
| range_map_caption = Ranges of the Ganges river dolphin and of the Indus river dolphin
}}

The '''South Asian river dolphin''' (''Platanista gangetica'') is a [[freshwater]] or [[river dolphin]] found in [[India]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Nepal]] and [[Pakistan]].

It is split into two subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin (''P. g. gangetica'') and Indus river dolphin (''P. g. minor'').

From the 1970s until 1998, they were regarded as separate species; however, in 1998, their classification was changed from two separate species to subspecies of a single species. The idea was to wait until [[sequence analysis|genetic analysis]] had decided how best to classify them.

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