Platan is tidæ (platan is tide)

pl. [NL., Platan is tidæ are fluviatile or estuarine dolphins of warm waters, having a small or obsolete dorsal fin, broad truncate flippers, distinct flukes, external indication of a neck, free cervical 4537 Over their forehead and eyes they [mules] have three pieces of plate , made either of bra e or latten. Coryat, Crudities, I. 69. mal distinct tubercular and and capitular articulations of the ribs, and long slender jaws with very numerous functional teeth.