Also soosoo, sousou. [Bengalī.] The Gangetic dolphin, Platanista gangetica.
1801. Roxburgh in Asiatic Res., VII. 171. Delphinus Gangeticus…. Soosoo is the name it is known by amongst the Bengalese about Calcutta. They are found in great numbers in the Ganges.
1878. J. Anderson, Anat. & Zool. Res. Yunnan, I. 422. Platanista gangetica.… This genus is known by different names along the Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra. Along the first-mentioned river, the term generally applied to it is sus, susu, or sunsar; along the Indus it is called, as a rule, bulhan.
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), V. 191. The Susu (Platanista gangetica) inhabits the Brahmapootra as well as the Ganges.
