Lipotes vexillifer Miller, 1918 . Smithson. Mise. Coll., 68(9):1.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Tung Ting Lake, about 600 miles up the Yangtze River, [Hunan] China " .

DISTRIBUTION: China: Chang Jiang (Yangtze) and Qiantang Jiang (mouth of Fuchun Jiang) river systems.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Chen (1989), Zhou et al. (1978, 1979). Reviewed by Brownell and Herald (1972, Mammalian Species, 10).