Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918 
AphiaID: 254962

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Mammalia > Theria > Cetartiodactyla > Cetancodonta > Cetacea > Odontoceti > Lipotidae > Lipotes

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 added on 2009-02-15 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Perrin, William on 2009-04-17 23:57:15 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 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: Perrin, W.F. (2013) World Cetacea Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/cetacea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254962 on 2013-05-24