Lipotes vexillifer

G. S. Miller, 1918

Baiji

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Artiodactyla
Suborder : Whippomorpha
Infraorder : Cetacea
Parvorder : Odontoceti
Superfamily : Lipotoidea
Family : Lipotidae
Genus : Lipotes

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Miller, G.S., Jr. 1918-03-30. A new river-dolphin from China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 68(9):1-12.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29836431

Original name as described

Lipotes vexillifer

Other common names

Changjiang Dolphin · Chinese Lake Dolphin · Chinese River Dolphin · White Flag Dolphin · Whitefin Dolphin · Yangtze River Dolphin

Type material

USNM:MAMM:218293

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3193057bc-a29b-4ae8-b94c-40920fad7dd8

Type locality

Tung Ting Lake, about 600 miles up the Yangtze River, Hunan Province, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

moved from Iniidae to Lipotidae

Taxonomy notes citation

May-Collado, L., & Agnarsson, I. (2006). Cytochrome b and Bayesian inference of whale phylogeny. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 38(2), 344-354. · McGowen, M. R., Tsagkogeorga, G., Álvarez-Carretero, S., dos Reis, M., Struebig, M., Deaville, R., ... & Rossiter, S. J. (2020). Phylogenomic resolution of the cetacean tree of life using target sequence capture. Systematic Biology, 69(3), 479-501.

IUCN Red List status

Critically Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006458

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Lipotes vexillifer

G. S. Miller, 1918

Family

Lipotidae

Root name

vexillifer

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:218293

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3193057bc-a29b-4ae8-b94c-40920fad7dd8

Authority page

8

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29836431

Authority publication

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:108) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:290) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Mead & Brownell (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9684)
  4. O'Brien, Menninger & Nash (2006:547) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/7321)
  5. Smith & Xie (2008:483) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  6. Mittermeier & Wilson (2014:385) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67175)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #12119) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #12119) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006458) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  10. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12119/50362206) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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