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Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918 
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
Rank Species
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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Chinese bai ji  [details]
Chinese chih  [details]
Chinese pei chi  [details]
English baiji  [details]
English Chinese lake dolphin  [details]
English Chinese river dolphin  [details]
English white flag dolphin  [details]
English Yangtze river dolphin  [details]
French dauphin d'eau douce de Chine  [details]
French dauphin du Yang-Tse  [details]
French dauphin fluviatile de Chine  [details]
German Chinesische Flussdelphin  [details]
Japanese Yousuko-kawa-iruka  [details]
Portuguese golfinho chinês  [details]
Spanish platanista del Yangtze  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh
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]
Images 
Lipotes vexillifer
Lipotes vexillifer
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:57:15

Lipotes vexillifer
Lipotes vexillifer
added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:57:21

baiji Lipotes vexillifer
baiji Lipotes vexillifer
added on 2009-05-01 - author: Thomas Jefferson ()
qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-05-01 23:48:42
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254962
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2007-12-22 19:25:59Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-20 11:25:36Z  changed  Perrin, William
  
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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 2013-06-20
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