WoRMS taxon details
Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918
AphiaID: 254962
AphiaID: 254962
| 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) > Lipotes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parent | Lipotes Miller, 1918 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Miller, G. S., Jr. (1918). A new river dolphin from China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 68(9):1--12, 13 pl. [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: Rice, D. W. 1998. Marine mammals of the world. Systematics and distribution. Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4. [details] additional source: Hershkovitz, P. (1966). Catalog of living whales. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 246:1--259. [details] additional source: Jefferson, T. A., M. A. Webber and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine mammals of the world. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, available online at http://www.iucnredlist.org [details] additional source: Perrin, W. F., B. Würsig and J. G. M. Thewissen. (2009). Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, Amsterdam. [details] additional source: Brownell, R. L., Jr. and E. S. Herald. (1972). Lipotes vexillifer. Mammalian Species 10:1--4. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Links | MarineBio.org To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications) To GenBank (285 nucleotides; 226 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: East Asia, in Yangtze River and lakes [details] Extinction: possibly extinct [details] Holotype: Male, skull and cervical vertebrae in U.S. National Museum of Nataural History, Washington DC, U.S.A., no. 218293, colllected Feb. 18, 1916, by Charles M. Hoy. [details] IUCN Red List Category: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) (CR (PE)) [details] Type locality: Tungting Lake, Hunan, China [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254962 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Perrin, W. (2013). Lipotes vexillifer 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=254962 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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