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).