Lipotes vexillifer Miller 1918

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 739

Lipotes vexillifer Miller 1918

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

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

Vernacular Names: Baiji.

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

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.

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