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Lipotes Miller, 1918 
AphiaID: 254961

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Mammalia (Class) > Theria (Subclass) > Cetartiodactyla (Order) > Cetancodonta (Suborder) > Cetacea (Infraorder) > Odontoceti (Superfamily) > Lipotidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Lipotidae Zhou, Qian & Li, 1978
Sources  basis of record: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record: Mead, J. G. and R. L. Brownell, Jr. (2005). Cetacea. Pages 723--743 in Wilson, D.E. & D.M. Reeder (eds). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp., available online at http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/ [details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

Direct child
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 Species Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918
Environment fresh
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To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254961
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-04-09 06:25:32Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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  Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Lipotes Miller, 1918. In: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254961 on 2013-05-20
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